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Award-winning journalist Jill Lawrence is commentary editor and a columnist at USA Today. A former columnist for U.S. News and World Report and Creators Syndicate, she is the author of the 2017 book The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock and a contributor to The Surge: 2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Race.
Lawrence has covered every presidential campaign since 1988, as well as historic events such as the 1998 Clinton impeachment, the 2000 Florida recount and the health reform battles of the Clinton and Obama eras. She is co-author of Governors and the Presidency: How They Campaign, How They Govern, for the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, and Phoning It In and Failing to Show: The Story of the 2014 House Primaries, for the Brookings Institution.
Her positions have included senior correspondent and managing editor for politics at National Journal; senior correspondent and columnist for Politics Daily; national political correspondent for USA Today, and national political writer for The Associated Press. Her writing on politics, policy and culture has also appeared in Politico Magazine, The Week, Al Jazeera America Opinion, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Among Lawrence's national awards and honors are the National Press Club's 2016 Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis, a 2010 Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her Politics Daily columns, and a 1995 National Headliner Award for her AP columns. She was a finalist in the 2015 National Society of Newspaper Columnists contest and the 2010 Online News Association awards. Columbia Journalism Review named her one of the top 10 campaign reporters in the country in 2004. Washingtonian magazine included her on its list of 50 "best and most influential journalists" in 2005.
Lawrence has a music literature degree from the University of Michigan and a master's in journalism from New York University. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband. They have two sons, one a violinist, the other a composer and screenwriter.
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