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Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post columnist

Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Jonathan Capehart serves as a regular contributor to the PBS NewsHour. Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board and hosts the "Cape Up" podcast. and Washington Post Live's "First Look." He also served as a Spring 2019 fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.

In 2014, Advocate magazine ranked Capehart 9th out of 50 of the most influential LGBT people in media. That same year, Mediaite named him one of the "Top 9 Rising Stars of Cable News." Equality Forum made him a 2018 LGBT History Month Icon. Capehart has twice made the OUT 100 list. In May 2018, the publisher of The Washington Post awarded him an "Outstanding Contribution Award" for his opinion writing and "Cape Up" podcast interviews.

Early in his career, Capehart was the deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News and served on that paper’s editorial board. In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Capehart later become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News, and took a leave from that position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his first successful campaign for New York City mayor.

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