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Marty Tolchin has flunked retirement yet again. Tolchin capped a 40-year-career with the New York Times by founding The Hill, a newspaper that reports on Congress. Three years after retiring from The Hill, he is helping launch Politico. Tolchin's many journalism awards include the Everett M. Dirksen Prize for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. With his wife Susan, a Professor of Public Policy, Tolchin has written seven books, including To The Victor: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House, which has been cited in four U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Their most recent book is A World Ignited: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe.
Mike Allen is the chief political correspondent for Politico. He comes to us from Time magazine where he was their White House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President Bush's first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics, he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg, Va., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he nurtured police sources on overnight ride-alongs through housing projects. Allen also covered Mayor Giuliani, the Connecticut statehouse and the wacky rich of Greenwich for The New York Times. Before moving to The Times, he did stints in the Richmond and Alexandria bureaus of The Washington Post. Allen grew up in Orange County, Calif., and has a B.A. from Washington and Lee University, where he majored in politics and journalism.
Roger Simon is the Chief Political Columnist of Politico. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago where politics was a contact sport.
At the Chicago Sun-Times, where he wrote a column four times per week, Simon was taught that the only way for a journalist to look upon a politician was down. He now fights against that impulse daily.
Simon also has been a columnist for the Baltimore Sun, a White House correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the political editor of U.S. News World Report. His column is syndicated to newspapers around the country. He has written columns from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel and South Africa. Simon is a New York Times best-selling author. He has won more than three dozen first-place awards and is the only person to win twice the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary.
Simon also won the National Headliner Award three times including 2005 for his coverage of the 2004 presidential election. His work has been included in the "Best Newspaper Writing in America" in three different years.
Simon, who has a B.A. degree in English from the University of Illinois, has been a Poynter Media Fellow at Yale University, a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University, and in the spring of 2005 was a Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University. He was also inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, whose members include Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner and Mike Royko.
When Simon dies, he intends to be buried in Chicago, so he can still participate in the politics of that city.
John Bresnahan, is the capitol bureau chief of Politico. He comes to us after over a decade covering Congress, most recently as a reporter and editor for Roll Call. He is one of the most well-sourced journalists on the characters, history and procedures of Congress.
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