Roll Call

Senator Tim Wirth reading an issue of Roll Call in 1991

Roll Call is a newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C., United States, when the United States Congress is in session. Roll Call reports news of legislative and political maneuverings on Capitol Hill, as well as political coverage of congressional elections across the country. In addition to breaking news, the paper features analysts such as David Hawkings and Nathan L. Gonzales. RollCall.com, the online version of the newspaper, features breaking news stories, daily e-mail alerts, information graphics and award-winning photojournalism. Walter Shapiro, Jonathan Allen, Mary Curtis and Patricia Murphy are regular columnists.

Roll Call was founded in 1955 by Sid Yudain, who was working as a press secretary to Congressman Al Morano (R-Conn.) at the time.^[2][3] Yudain published the inaugural issue on June 16, 1955, with an initial printing of 10,000 copies.^[4] In 1986, Yudain sold Roll Call to Arthur Levitt, who was the chairman of the American Stock Exchange at the time of the sale.^[4] Yudain continued to work as a columnist at Roll Call after the sale.^[4] The Economist Group acquired Roll Call in 1993.^[5]

Today, Roll Call is the flagship publication of CQ Roll Call, which also operates: CQ (formerly Congressional Quarterly), publisher of a subscriber-based service for daily and weekly news about Congress and politics and a weekly magazine. Roll Call merged with CQ in 2009 after the latter company was purchased by The Economist Group,^[6] Roll Call's parent company.

Every issue of Roll Call is delivered to Congress and to the White House free of charge.

Congressional Baseball Game

In 1962, Roll Call began sponsoring the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. In 1965, the first Roll Call Trophy was awarded—to the Republican team, which was the first team to win three games since Roll Call began its sponsorship. Since then, a new trophy has been awarded to the next team that wins three games (over the next three, four, or five years), following the year in which the most recent trophy was awarded. Roll Call also sponsors the Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame.

Prominent former and current staffers

• Mary Ann Akers, writer, Politico
• Christina Bellantoni, assistant managing editor for politics, Los Angeles Times
• Chris Cillizza, politics reporter and editor-at-large, CNN
• Tim Curran, Sunday Editor, The Washington Post
• Emily Heil, co-author the Reliable Source, The Washington Post
• Ed Henry, chief national correspondent, Fox News Channel
• Paul Kane, senior congressional correspondent, The Washington Post
• Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent, NBC News and MSNBC
• John McArdle, producer and co-host, C-SPAN's Washington Journal
• Norah O'Donnell, co-anchor, CBS This Morning
• Ben Pershing, Managing Editor, National Journal
• Mark Preston, executive editor, CNN Politics
• Jake Tapper, anchor, CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper and State of the Union
• Nina Totenberg, correspondent, National Public Radio
• Jim VandeHei, co-founder and CEO of Axios; former co-founder and executive editor, Politico
• Rachel Van Dongen, editor of PowerPost, The Washington Post

References

External links

• RollCall.com
• cqrollcall.com