Bob Kemper

I've been a journalist for more than 25 years on the staffs of The Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a number of other newspapers. I spent much of that time covering politics on every level from local school board races to the presidential campaigns.

I was the White House correspondent for The Tribune during President George W. Bush's first term and had helped cover President Bill Clinton's White House before that. I've also spent a considerable amount of time writing about Congress and the Pentagon.

My experience isn't confined to Washington. I've reported on the governors and legislatures of three states (Virginia, Illinois and Georgia) and covered numerous gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and Congressional races over the years. Work has taken me to 49 states and more than 30 countries.

Politics has always been my passion. I follow it the way serious baseball fans follow box scores and batting stats. But it's not all I've written about. I was amazed to learn there is more than one kind of cow as the farm editor for a weekly newspaper in Lancaster County, Pa.; gone on a dinosaur dig in the badlands of Montana; and got to know nuclear aircraft carriers inside and out in Newport News, Va.

I am an adjunct professor in the School of Communications at American University in Washington, D.C., where I've taught a course on how U.S. presidents manipulate the news and the public.

Though I worked mainly in print, I have appeared as a policy and political analyst on numerous radio and television networks and programs, including NBC, National Public Radio and the BBC. My freelance work has appeared in publications as diverse as The Richmond (Va.) Free Press, an African American newspaper, and The Times of London.

I no longer work full time for any particular news organization, but am instead pursuing other writing projects, including a book and freelance work.