Harry Enten
Harry Enten | |
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 Enten in 2020 | |
| Born | Harry Joe Enten March 1, 1988 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Senior political writer and analyst forFiveThirtyEight Senior writer and analyst forCNN Politics |
| Relatives | Neil Sedaka(uncle) |
Harry Joe Enten(born March 1, 1988)[1][2]is an American journalist known for his former role as a senior political writer and analyst for the websiteFiveThirtyEight[3]and his current job as a senior writer and analyst forCNN Politics.[4]He was described by theColumbia Journalism Reviewas being of a new generation ofpolitical journalists,focusing ondata-driven journalisminstead of reporting from the campaign trail.[5]
Early life and education[edit]
Enten was raised in aJewishfamily[2][6][7][8]in theRiverdaleneighborhood ofThe Bronx,New York City.[5]Harry was introduced to politics as a child when his father, a judge, took him into the polling booth to help pull the levers for elections. He attendedRiverdale Country School.He is the nephew of singer-songwriterNeil Sedaka,who married Enten's aunt.[7]
Enten graduated magna cum laude, andPhi Beta KappafromDartmouth Collegein 2011. Enten chose to attendDartmouthat least partially due toNew Hampshire'sstatus as thefirst-in-the-nation primary.[8][9]
Enten began publishing ablogcalledMargin of Error,and held an internship atNBC NewsPolitical Unit inWashington, D.C.[8][5]Prior to working forFiveThirtyEight,Enten was a journalist forThe Guardian.[5][10]
FiveThirtyEight[edit]
Along withCarl Bialikand Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first peopleNate Silverhired whenFiveThirtyEightrelaunched underESPN.[5][11]He mostly wrote politics articles for FiveThirtyEight, but he occasionally wrote weather pieces. Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast,[12]alongside host Jody Avirgan and fellow co-hosts Nate Silver and Clare Malone.
He announced on February 5, 2018, that he was leavingFiveThirtyEightto join CNN's Politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.[13][14]
The Forecast Fest[edit]
From April 2019 to March 2020,Kate Bolduan,John Avlon,and Harry Enten produced a podcast calledThe Forecast Festtogether. It was about the2020 United States presidential election.[15]
References[edit]
- ^Enten, Harry."Harry Enten - Twitter Profile".Twitter.RetrievedAugust 26,2020.
- ^ab"Everything You Need To Know About Fivethirtyeight's Harry Enten".BuzzFeed.January 30, 2017.RetrievedApril 25,2018.
- ^"Harry Enten".FiveThirtyEight.RetrievedJune 1,2017.
- ^"Harry Enten - Senior Writer and Analyst, CNN Politics".CNN.RetrievedApril 25,2018.
- ^abcdeVernon, Pete (October 5, 2016)."FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid' Harry Enten represents the new generation of political journalist".Columbia Journalism Review.Archived fromthe originalon June 2, 2017.
- ^Enten, Harry J. (September 26, 2012)."Why I'm not on Twitter for Yom Kippur".The Guardian.
- ^ab"Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul".Tablet Magazine.October 19, 2016.RetrievedApril 25,2018.
Our Jew of the week is Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight and a regular on the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast
- ^abcPlatt, Bill (19 October 2016)."How Harry Enten '11 Became FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid'".Dartmouth News.RetrievedApril 25,2018.
- ^Colomer, Josep M.,ed. (2013).Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems.ECPR Press.ISBN9781907301575.
- ^Enten, Harry Joe."Margin of Error".Blogspot.Archived fromthe originalon June 2, 2017.
I am a graduate of Hanover, NH. I graduated with a degree in government summa cum laude with a concentration in statistics and elections. I have previously interned at the NBC Political Unit in Washington D.C. (Spring 2009) & Pollster.com (spring and summer 2010).
- ^Bhuiyan, Johana (November 13, 2013)."Guardian writer and number-cruncher Harry Enten goes to work for Nate Silver".Politico.Archived fromthe originalon June 2, 2017.
- ^"Politics Podcast – FiveThirtyEight".fivethirtyeight.com.RetrievedDecember 29,2017.
- ^"Has Trump Remade The GOP?".FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast(Podcast).FiveThirtyEight.2018-02-05. Event occurs at 3:12.Retrieved2023-04-27.
- ^Silver, Stephen (2020-07-26)."CNN election forecaster Harry Enten speaks about his Jewishness".The Jerusalem Post.Retrieved2023-04-27.
- ^Kate Bolduan;Harry Enten;John Avlon."The Forecast Fest on stitcher".CNN.
External links[edit]
- CNN Profiles: Harry Enten
- The Forecast Feston stitcher
- 1988 births
- Living people
- American male journalists
- American online journalists
- 21st-century American journalists
- CNN people
- The Guardian journalists
- Journalists from the Bronx
- Jewish American journalists
- American political writers
- American male bloggers
- American podcasters
- American statisticians
- Mathematicians from New York (state)
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Riverdale Country School alumni
- 21st-century American Jews
- People from Riverdale, Bronx