Talk:Dan Balz

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Dan Balz is national political correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 1978 and has been involved in the paper?s political coverage as a reporter or editor for the past 27 years.

Balz has served as National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and as the paper?s Texas-based Southwest correspondent. He is co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, of the 1996 book "Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival."

In 1999, he received the American Political Science Association award for his coverage of politics. Before coming to the Post, he worked as a reporter and deputy editor for National Journal and as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

He was born in Freeport, Ill., and graduated from the University of Illinois. He is married to Nancy Johnson Balz and they have one son.