Jim Geraghty

About

Jim Geraghty, National Review’s senior political correspondent, is one of today’s must-read journalists, from his widely cited original reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and the concerns about safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to his recent reporting on veterans’ groups trying to smuggle Americans and endangered Afghans away from the Taliban and out of that country. Jim writes the widely read “Morning Jolt” newsletter and writes for both National Review’s magazine and web site. He was named CPAC’s “Journalist of the Year” in 2015 and won the Young Conservatives Coalition’s William F. Buckley award that year. He’s the author of "Heavy Lifting" with Cam Edwards, the satirical novel "The Weed Agency" (a Washington Post bestseller), the nonfiction study of the 9/11 attacks on American elections entitled "Voting to Kill", and an ongoing series of thriller novels. Jim appears weekly on "The Editors," National Review’s podcast discussing current events with Rich Lowry, Charles C. W. Cooke and Michael Brendan Dougherty. He also co-hosts "The Three Martini Lunch" podcast with Greg Corombos of Radio America, a fast-paced weekday podcast examining at the day’s headlines with a lot of laughs, and co-hosts a syndicated pop culture podcast with Mickey White. Earlier in Jim's career, his reporting appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Detroit Free Press, Bergen Record, the Dallas Morning News, Congressional Quarterly, and the now-departed websites Policy.com and IntellectualCapital.com. Jim spent two years in Ankara, Turkey working as a foreign correspondent and studying anti-Americanism, democratization, Islam, Middle East politics, and U.S. diplomacy efforts, appearing in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Sun, The Washington Times and The Washington Examiner. He covered violent protests over the Muhammad cartoons, avian flu outbreaks, and Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Ankara. He also covered national elections in Great Britain and Germany, and has reported from Egypt, Italy, Israel, Spain, and Jordan over the years. In 2008, Best Life magazine called Jim one of “the 10 most important voices to listen to this election cycle.” His “Kerry Spot” blog was awarded for having the “Best Political Dirt” by WashingtonPost.com in 2004, and the London Times praised his “killer insight” in that election cycle. He lives in the spider-infested neighborhood nicknamed "Authenticity Woods" in Fairfax County, Virginia.