Biography
Jeff Zeleny a journalist and CNN’s lead national affairs correspondent. He was ABC News’s senior Washington correspondent before. He received a Pulitzer Prize from the Chicago Tribune during his newspaper career.
Age
He is 51 years old as of 10 June 2024. He was born on 10 June 1973 in Exeter, Nebraska, United States. His real name is Jeffrey Dean Zeleny.
Parents and Siblings
Zeleny, the son of Diane Naomi (née Yeck) and Robert Dean Zeleny, was born in Exeter, Nebraska, on June 10, 1973. He grew up on the family farm alongside his two elder brothers, Michael Jon Zeleny and James Robert Zeleny. He has Czech ancestry on both sides of his family, with some ancestors hailing from Moravia and the majority from Bohemia. In Czech, “zeleny” means “green.”
Partner
Zeleny is gay by choice as well.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Jeff Zeleny CNN, ABC News
Zeleny began working at The Des Moines Register in 1996, having previously interned for many newspapers while in college, including The Wall Street Journal, the Florida Times-Union, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He had intended to cover sports, but the significance of the Iowa Caucuses caused him to shift his focus to politics.
He moved out to write for the Chicago Tribune in 2000. He covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns for the publication. For his work on a series exposing air traffic control issues around the country, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism while he was employed at the Tribune.
He was hired by The New York Times in 2006 to cover politics, and as the paper’s lead reporter, he covered the 2012 presidential election. Media bloggers took notice when Zeleny asked President Barack Obama how he was “surprised, troubled, enchanted, and humbled” in his first days of office during the president’s 100-day news conference in April 2009.
In this job he covers Congress and public governmental issues for the organization, revealing for all transmissions and stages, including “Great Morning America,” “World News with Diane Sawyer” and “Nightline,” and contributes consistently to the “This Week” roundtable on Sunday mornings. Zeleny likewise reports for all ABC News computerized properties, including “Power Players,” the ABC News/Yippee! News computerized video series.
Zeleny has headed out to every one of the 50 states and detailed from more than two-dozen nations across six mainlands. He is one of the nation’s chief political writers, and his detailing frequently drives the consistent pattern of media reporting for quite a long time. After the 2012 political decision, Zeleny was the main correspondent to uncover that Karl Meander was beginning another gathering to zero in on enrolling prepared conservative possibility to run in the following round of Legislative races. He likewise let it be known in 2012 that President Obama would uphold a Vote based Super PAC, an inversion from his unequivocally stood firm on foothold in 2008.
Preceding joining ABC News, Zeleny was the public political journalist for the New York Times, where he was the lead correspondent on the 2012 Official mission. He likewise covered Barack Obama’s street to the White House in 2008 and his organization, making a trip to Cairo in June 2009 to cover the President’s most memorable significant location to the Muslim world, and to Oslo to cover the president getting a Nobel Harmony Prize. He likewise covered Congress for the Times.
Before his residency at the Times, Zeleny was the public political reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he covered the 2004 Official mission and the main long stretches of the George W. Shrubbery organization. He joined the Chicago Tribune in 2000 as a correspondent on the Metropolitan work area in Chicago, where he was an individual from the detailing group that won a Pulitzer Prize in Logical Reporting for recording gridlock in the country’s air traffic framework.
Zeleny started his profession at the Des Moines Register, where he covered the initial round of the 2000 Official mission. He moved on from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1996, where he concentrated on news-publication reporting and political theory. He has additionally worked at the Related Press, the Money Road Diary, the Arkansas Liberal Newspaper, the Florida Times Association and the Lincoln Diary Star.
