Dan Balz
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| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BA, MA) |
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Daniel Balz is an American journalist who worked for The Washington Post from 1978 to 2025. During his career at the Post, Balz served as the Texas-based Southwest correspondent, White House correspondent, Political Editor, and National Editor.
Balz periodically appears as a panelist on the news shows Meet the Press and Washington Week.
In April 2011 the White House Correspondents' Association honored Balz with the prestigious Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage under deadline pressure.
Early life and education
Balz was born in Freeport, Illinois. A 1964 graduate of Freeport High School, he received bachelor's and master's degrees in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1971.[1]
Career
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 Booknotes interview with Balz on Storming the Gates, February 18, 1996, C-SPAN |
Balz is co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, of the 1996 book Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival.[2] In 1999, Balz received the American Political Science Association award for political coverage.[3]
Balz's latest work, co-written with Pulitzer Prize winner Haynes Johnson in 2013, is Collision 2012.[4][5][6][7] Based on two years of reporting, it includes exclusive interviews with then-candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and many of their top advisers during the campaign and election.[1]
After college graduation, prior to entering military service, Balz worked for the Freeport Journal Standard covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention and contemporaneous riots.[8] Before coming to The Washington Post, he worked as a reporter and deputy editor for National Journal[1] and as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Personal life
He is married to Nancy Johnson Balz and they have one son.[9][10]
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dan Balz, National Correspondent for The Washington Post, Keynotes the 2009 Reuben Baumgartner Issues Forum". Highland Community College. August 26, 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Storming the Gates: Interview on C-SPAN". Booknotes. February 18, 1996. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Carey McWilliams Award Winners". American Political Science Association. 1999. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Amazon.com". www.amazon.com. Archived from the original on 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America". Brookings. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Opinion | 'Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America' by Dan Balz". The Washington Post. 2013-08-02. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Collision 2012 by Dan Balz: 9780143125686 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."What One Journalist Remembers from the 1968 Convention Riots". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dickerson, Carole (August 18, 2009). "You read it here first!". The Journal-Standard. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
External links
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- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Washington Post: Dan Balz
- PBS WETA: Dan Balz
- Harvard: Fellows: Dan Balz
- Random House: Dan Balz
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Dan Balz
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