Chris Cillizza

Chris Cillizza
Chris Cillizza at Miller Center in 2012
Born Christopher Michael Cillizza
(1976-02-20) February 20, 1976
Marlborough, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Georgetown University
Occupation Journalist
Employer CNN
Spouse(s) Gia Cillizza
Website www.cnn.com/profiles/chris-cillizza

Christopher Michael "Chris" Cillizza (/sɪˈlɪzə/; born February 20, 1976)[1] is an American journalist and political commentator for CNN. Prior to joining CNN, he wrote for The Fix, the daily political weblog of The Washington Post, and was a regular contributor to the Post on political issues, a frequent panelist on Meet the Press, and was an MSNBC political analyst. Cillizza is also a regular co-host of The Tony Kornheiser Show.[2][3] In April 2017, Cillizza began working for CNN, including writing and onscreen appearances.

Early life and education

Cillizza was born and raised in Marlborough, Connecticut.[4][5][6] Cillizza attended The Loomis Chaffee School (which he often refers to jokingly as the "Loomis Chaffee School for the Rich"),[7] an independent boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, and graduated in 1994.[8][6] He attended Georgetown University from 1994 to 1998, where he graduated with a B.A. in English.[9] He currently resides in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife and two children.[2] He is of Sicilian and Irish descent.[10]

Career

After working as a novelist and later an intern for conservative writer George Will,[11] Cillizza began his career in journalism. He initially desired to work as a sports writer, but decided that sports "would be less fun" than politics.[11] At The Cook Political Report He later worked on Roll Call prior to joining The Washington Post.[12] For the Cook Report he covered gubernatorial races and southern House races. He wrote a column on politics for Congress Daily. During his four years at Roll Call, which he joined in June 2001, he reported on campaign politics from the presidential to the congressional level, finishing his time at Roll Call as the paper's White House correspondent.[13]

His freelance work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, Washingtonian, and Slate.[14] He has also been a guest on CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.[13] After multiple guest appearances on the network, he was named an MSNBC Political Analyst, a position he resigned when he accepted a position at CNN.[15] He is also a frequent panelist on Meet the Press.

The Fix

Cillizza founded the blog The Fix in 2005 and wrote for it on a regular basis until he joined CNN in 2017.[16] The blog's focus was American electoral politics, with Cillizza commenting on gubernatorial, Congressional and presidential elections. He hosted the weekly Fix live chat. Cilizza also oversaw a monthly trivia contest called "Politics and Pints" at the Washington, D.C. bar Capitol Lounge.[17]

Media

From 2007 to 2008, Cillizza was a co-host of the MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogues, which hosted John McCain, Barack Obama, and others in a live-streamed, interactive Presidential event series. Cillizza and fellow The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank appeared in a series of humor videos called Mouthpiece Theater, hosted by The Washington Post. An outcry followed a video in which, during a discussion of the White House "Beer Summit", they chose new brands for a number of people, including "Mad Bitch Beer" for Hillary Clinton. Both men apologized for the video and the series was canceled.[18]

In July 2012, Broadway Books (a division of Penguin Random House) released his book, The Gospel According to the Fix.[19] Written in a blog-like format,[20] it contains lists such as "The 10 Best/Worst Negative Ads", as well as coverage of the "deep personal hatreds that politics provoke" and predictions for the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.[21]

Since 2014, Cillizza has served a regular co-host of The Tony Kornheiser Show.[2][3]

CNN

On April 3, 2017, Cillizza joined CNN as a "political reporter and digital editor-at-large," contributing online and on television.[16][22]

On June 28, 2017, CNN Politics announced the launch of "The Point with Chris Cillizza." According to the official press release, the new "multiplatform brand" will include "daily columns, on-air analysis, an evening newsletter, [a] podcast, and the launch of trivia night events in Washington, DC."[23][24]

Reception

Columbia Journalism Review has described Cillizza's informal, "everyman" style as being popular with readers, but extremely unpopular with other journalists and media experts.[11] Media critic Jay Rosen has compared his approach to infotainment which turns political analysis into gamesmanship detached from real-world implications.[25][11] Examples of his unserious approach to politics cited in the Columbia Journalism Review including a "second-by-second" analysis of a handshake between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron,[26] an article about the relationship between Jeff Sessions and the President,[27] among others.[11] Former CNN host Soledad O'Brien has also described Cillizza's work as facile.[28][29] David Weigel has criticized Cillizza for focusing on arbitrary predictions rather than factual analysis.[30]

References

  1. ↑ "Chris Cillizza on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  2. 1 2 3 Van Zandt, Emily (2016-08-29). "Why Chris Cillizza Doesn't Read the Comments". Arlington Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  3. 1 2 Casselberry, Ian (2016-06-02). "Tony Kornheiser ending D.C. radio show, starting podcast in September". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  4. ↑ House, Dennis (2009-12-27). "Chris Cillizza on 'Face the State'". The Hartfordite. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  5. ↑ Cillizza, Chris (2014-02-12). "How 'Red Sox vs. Yankees' explains Connecticut politics". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  6. 1 2 Blair, Russell (13 March 2017). "Connecticut Native, Political Reporter Jumps To CNN". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  7. ↑ "Chris Cillizza on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  8. ↑ "The Loomis Chaffee Class Of 1994". Hartford Courant. 1994-06-04. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  9. ↑ "Chris Cillizza". Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  10. ↑ "The Fix Faceoff: Video Q&A with Chris Cillizza". Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Lenz, Lyz (July 27, 2017). "Enthusiastic, prolific, simplistic Chris Cillizza reaches new heights". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  12. ↑ "About Chris Cilizza" (biosketch), The Washington Post; retrieved September 11, 2011.
  13. 1 2 "Meet the Reporters | Ohio River Ramble: Nine Districts in Nine Days | Campaign 2006 | washingtonpost.com". www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  14. ↑ "Chris Cillizza | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS". Tavis Smiley | PBS. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  15. ↑ Gold, Hadas (14 March 2017). "CNN hires Chris Cillizza". Politico. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  16. 1 2 Wemple, Erik (2017-03-13). "CNN hires Chris Cillizza away from The Washington Post". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  17. ↑ Johnson, Chase (2010-07-26). "Hip to be Square". Northern Virginia Magazine. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  18. ↑ Howard Kurtz, "Post's Video 'Theater' Ends Its Run: Hosts Apologize for Off-Color Clinton Joke", washingtonpost.com, August 6, 2009; accessed March 15, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Press Release: Gospel According to The Fix by Chris Cillizza". The Crown Publishing Group. 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  20. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: The Gospel According to the Fix: An Insider's Guide to a Less than Holy World of Politics by Chris Cillizza". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  21. ↑ Kurson, Ken (2012-07-23). "Politics as a Spectator Sport". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  22. ↑ Balluck, Kyle (2017-03-13). "Chris Cillizza jumps from Washington Post and MSNBC to CNN". TheHill. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  23. ↑ "CNN Politics Launches 'The Point with Chris Cillizza'". CNN. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  24. ↑ Balluck, Kyle (2017-06-28). "CNN launching brand around Chris Cillizza". TheHill. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  25. ↑ Rosen, Jay (February 7, 2014). "Behold how badly our political journalists have lost the freakin' plot - PressThink". PressThink. New York University. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  26. ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/a-second-by-second-analysis-of-the-trump-macron-handshake/index.html
  27. ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/22/politics/worst-week-in-washington/index.html
  28. ↑ http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-cnn-host-soledad-obrien-hits-chris-cillizza-for-terrible-analysis/article/2650906
  29. ↑ https://splinternews.com/rip-chris-cillizza-owned-to-death-by-soledad-obrien-w-1823576610
  30. ↑ Weigel, David (February 5, 2014). "CBOghazi: Journalists Have No Idea "What Will Matter" in an Election". Slate. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
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