Tucker Carlson

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Tucker Carlson

Political news correspondent, conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel

Tucker Carlson is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller.  He is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute and formerly co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire and MSNBC’s Tucker.

Carlson began his journalism career as a member of the editorial staff of Policy Review, a national conservative journal, then published by the Heritage Foundation (and since acquired by the Hoover Institution). He later worked as a reporter at the regionally influential Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas and at The Weekly Standard. As a magazine and newspaper journalist, Carlson has reported from around the world. He has been a columnist for Reader’s Digest and has written for Esquire, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Daily Beast.

Carlson joined CNN as its youngest anchor ever, remaining at the network until February 2005. He got his television start in 2000 as co-host of The Spin Room opposite Bill Press.

Carlson spoke at The Common Good as part of the 2008 Democratic National Convention Panel.

Twitter: @TuckerCarlson