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 website FiveThirtyEight[3] and his current job as a senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics.[4] He was described by the Columbia Journalism Review as being of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.[5]
Early life and education
Enten was raised in a Jewish family[2][6][7][8] in the Riverdale neighborhood of The 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 attended Riverdale Country School. He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who married Enten's aunt.[7]
Enten graduated magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2011. Enten chose to attend Dartmouth at least partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary.[8][9]
Enten began publishing a blog called Margin of Error, and held an internship at NBC News Political Unit in Washington, D.C.[8][5] Prior to working for FiveThirtyEight, Enten was a journalist for The Guardian.[5][10]
FiveThirtyEight
Along with Carl Bialik and Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first people Nate Silver hired when FiveThirtyEight relaunched under ESPN.[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 leaving FiveThirtyEight to join CNN's Politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.[13][14]
The Forecast Fest
From April 2019 to March 2020, Kate Bolduan, John Avlon, and Harry Enten produced a podcast called The Forecast Fest together. It was about the 2020 United States presidential election.[15]
References
- ^ Enten, Harry. "Harry Enten - Twitter Profile". Twitter. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ a b "Everything You Need To Know About Fivethirtyeight's Harry Enten". BuzzFeed. January 30, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Harry Enten". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ "Harry Enten - Senior Writer and Analyst, CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Vernon, Pete (October 5, 2016). "FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid' Harry Enten represents the new generation of political journalist". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017.
- ^ Enten, Harry J. (September 26, 2012). "Why I'm not on Twitter for Yom Kippur". The Guardian.
- ^ a b "Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul". Tablet Magazine. October 19, 2016. Retrieved April 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
- ^ a b c Platt, Bill. "How Harry Enten '11 Became FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid'". Dartmouth News. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ Colomer, Josep M., ed. (2013). Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems. ECPR Press. ISBN 9781907301575.
- ^ Enten, Harry Joe. "Margin of Error". Blogspot. Archived from the original on 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 from the original on June 2, 2017.
- ^ "Politics Podcast – FiveThirtyEight". fivethirtyeight.com. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ "Has Trump Remade The GOP?". FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast (Podcast). FiveThirtyEight. 2018-02-05. Event occurs at 3:12. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
- ^ Silver, Stephen (2020-07-26). "CNN election forecaster Harry Enten speaks about his Jewishness". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
- ^ Kate Bolduan; Harry Enten; John Avlon. "The Forecast Fest on stitcher". CNN.
External links
- CNN Profiles: Harry Enten
- The Forecast Fest on stitcher