Glenn Thrush is POLITICO’s senior White House reporter and the leader of the team that won the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Association Merriman Smith Award for deadline reporting on the presidency. Before that, he ran the site’s Hill blog and spent five years with Newsday—the last three in Washington following Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, and The New York Observer. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area with his wife, Diane Webber, and twin sons, Nathaniel and Charles.
Jonathan Martin has been a senior political writer for POLITICO since its 2007 inception. Most recently, he covered the 2012 campaign, winning praise for breaking news and his ahead-of-the-curve reporting and analysis on Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. Before that, Martin covered the historic 2008 White House contest and subsequently the White House and the 2010 midterm elections. His work has been published in The New Republic, National Review, National Journal, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Originally from Arlington, Virginia, Martin graduated from Hampden-Sydney College with a BA in history.
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