CNN: Howard Kurtz

Howard Kurtz is the host of the weekly CNN programReliable Sources,
which turns a critical lens on the media. Kurtz leads the scrutinizing
of the media’s fairness and objectivity by questioning journalists of
top news organizations, including those at CNN.

Kurtz is Washington bureau chief of The Daily Beast. In that role he
oversees the web site’s coverage of Washington and writes about the
intersection of politics and the media.

Prior to joining The Daily Beast, Kurtz was the longtime media
reporter for The Washington Post, where he wrote a regular column
called Media Notes. He joined the newspaper in 1981, after the demise
of The Washington Star, and covered urban affairs, the Justice
Department and Capitol Hill. He also served as The Washington Post’s
New York bureau chief. He has covered the media since 1990.

Kurtz is the author of five books on the media. His most recent is
Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television War (Free Press). He is
also the author The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street’s Game of
Money, Media and Manipulation (Free Press), Spin Cycle: Inside the
Clinton Propaganda Machine (Free Press), a New York Times best-selling
book about how the Clinton White House dealt with scandal and the
press. Kurtz also has written Hot Air: All Talk All the Time,
described by The New Yorker as “the definitive book on the talk show
explosion.” His first book, Media Circus: The Trouble with America’s
Newspapers, was voted the best recent book about the media by American
Journalism Review in 1995.

Kurtz has written for Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Washington
Monthly, New York Magazine, and Columbia Journalism Review.

He is a native of Brooklyn, New York.