Molly Ball

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About Molly Ball

Molly Ball is the National Political Correspondent for TIME, covering political campaigns, the White House, personalities and policy debates across America. She is also a political analyst for CNN and frequent television and radio commentator. Prior to joining TIME, she was a staff writer covering U.S. politics for The Atlantic. She previously reported for Politico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Las Vegas Sun. She has worked for newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia, as well as the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has received numerous awards for her political coverage, including the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism, and the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis. A graduate of Yale University, she was a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2009. In 2007, she won on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Ball grew up in Idaho and Colorado. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children.