Jake Tapper
American journalist
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| 2025 | Tapper published 'Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again'. |
| January 23 2025 | Announced that the show would move from its 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm slot to 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, with Kasie Hunt expected to take over the 4:00 pm timeslot with a new show called The Arena. |
| 2024 | Won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Live News Special for 'A CNN Town Hall: Toxic Train Disaster, Ohio Residents Speak Out' and Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage for Israel-Hamas War coverage. |
| 2024 | Moderated a GOP Primary Debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley before the Iowa caucuses. |
| 2024 | Won an Emmy Award for journalism at CNN. |
| December 2024 | Tapper appeared on the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, discussing and judging Saturday Night Live sketches. |
| June 27 2024 | Co-moderated a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that was seen by more than 51 million viewers and influenced Biden's subsequent decision to end his 2024 presidential campaign. |
| March 18 2024 | Tapper broke the news that Pennsylvania had freed and dropped charges against C.J. Rice, who was subsequently exonerated. |
| 2023 | Won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage for Ukraine invasion coverage and Outstanding Live News Special for 'January 6, One Year Later'. |
| 2023 | Tapper published the third volume in his novel series, 'All the Demons Are Here'. |
| 2023 | Won an Emmy Award for journalism at CNN. |
| December 2023 | C.J. Rice's conviction was overturned following Tapper's investigative story. |
| October 2022 | Tapper wrote a cover story for The Atlantic magazine about C.J. Rice, highlighting issues with his criminal case. |
| October 30 2022 | Tapper made a cameo in a Halloween-themed episode of The Rookie, wearing a Mike Schmidt Philadelphia Phillies jersey, alongside his son Jack. |
| October 5 2021 | Tapper and Monica Lewinsky discussed their 1997 date on an episode of his CNN program, The Lead with Jake Tapper. |
| May 2021 | Tapper released the sequel to 'The Hellfire Club', titled 'The Devil May Dance', continuing the story of Charlie and Margaret Marder. |
| January 2021 | CNN expands Tapper's role to lead anchor for major Washington events, with Dana Bash joining as co-host of State of the Union. |
| January 2021 | CNN announced the show would expand to two hours starting in April, taking over the first hour of The Situation Room. |
| October 2020 | The show expanded to a two-hour format from 3pm to 5pm ET, temporarily replacing Brooke Baldwin's CNN Newsroom. |
| July 2020 | A film adaptation of Tapper's book 'The Outpost' was released, directed by Rod Lurie and starring Milo Gibson, Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, and Caleb Landry Jones. |
| 2018 | Part of the CNN team that wins the Merriman Smith Award for broadcast reporting on the White House. |
| September 10 2018 | The program started to be simulcast on CNN International. |
| April 24 2018 | Jake Tapper published his first novel, 'The Hellfire Club', through Little, Brown and Company. The political thriller debuted at Number 3 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover fiction and remained on the list for four weeks. |
| 2017 | Receives the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism and the John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award. |
| 2016 | Tapper's show The Lead was honored with two National Headliner Awards for Best Newscast and Best Coverage of a Major News Event, specifically for coverage of the November 2015 Paris attacks. |
| May 23 2016 | Guest-illustrated the Dilbert cartoon during the week of May 23, with original drawings auctioned to raise money for the Homes for our Troops Foundation. |
| March 10 2016 | Moderated the Republican presidential debate in Miami, which drew almost 12 million viewers and was acclaimed for its substance. |
| February 15 2016 | The show began broadcasting via tape-delay on CNN Philippines, airing every Tuesday-Saturday at 11:00 am local time. |
| September 16 2015 | Tapper moderates a Republican primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, which becomes the most-watched program in CNN's history. |
| June 2015 | Jake Tapper becomes host of CNN's Sunday political show, State of the Union. |
| January 2015 | Tapper's reporting leads the Pentagon to reinstate a policy benefiting caregivers of wounded servicemembers. |
| 2014 | Received the Tex McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society for his book The Outpost and military reporting. |
| April 7 2014 | The Lead temporarily aired in the 9 pm ET slot following Piers Morgan's departure from CNN. |
| 2013 | The Lead with Jake Tapper wins three National Headliner Awards for reporting, including first prize for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and Oklahoma tornadoes. |
| March 18 2013 | Jake Tapper launched 'The Lead with Jake Tapper' on CNN, establishing a new afternoon news program with multiple segment 'leads' covering diverse topics. |
| February 2013 | CNN officially announced The Lead with Jake Tapper, with Federico Quadrani as the show's executive producer. |
| December 2012 | CNN hired Jake Tapper as the network's chief Washington, D.C. correspondent, with the move partially orchestrated by Jeff Zucker, who became CNN Worldwide president in 2013. |
| November 2012 | Tapper's book 'The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor' debuts at number 10 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction. |
| August 31 2011 | Tapper appeared as a guest bailiff on the Judge John Hodgman podcast, standing in for regular bailiff Jesse Thorn. |
| December 2010 | Tapper ranked number two on Mediaite's influential journalists list for the month of December. |
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