Karen Tumulty

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Karen Tumulty born 1955 is Time Magazine's National Political Correspondent based out of Washington DC, where she covers national political developments for the magazine.

Tumulty attended the University of Texas at Austin and is an alumna of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She received a BA in Journalism with high honors in 1977 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1981.

Tumulty is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she began her career at the now-defunct San Antonio Light. She is married to Paul Richter, who covers the State Department for the Los Angeles Times. They have two sons, Nicholas and Jack.

She joined TIME in October 1994 where she covered Congress for two years, then the White House, where she wrote major stories on President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Newt Gingrich.

Before joining TIME, Tumulty spent 14 years with the Los Angeles Times, covering Congress, economics, business, energy, and general-assignment beats. While at the Times, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism in 1982 and the National Press Foundation Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993.