Carl M. Cannon (born 1953) is an American journalist who, as of 2022, is the executive editor and

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bureau chief of RealClearPolitics. Cannon, born to

Lou Cannon Louis Cannon (born 1933) is an American journalist, non-fiction author, and biographer. He was state bureau chief for the '' San Jose Mercury News'' in the late 1960s, and later senior White House correspondent of ''The Washington Post'' during the ...

, was born in California and graduated from the

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. He worked as a reporter in Petersburg, Virginia, Columbus, Georgia, and at '' The San Diego Tribune'', and later the ''

San Jose Mercury News ''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...

'', the '' Baltimore Sun'', and the '' National Journal'' before being hired by RealClearPolitics in 2011. At the ''Mercury News'', he was part of the reporting team that was awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in the category of general news reporting for coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake. In 2003, he was elected president of the

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. He has also served as a Fellow-in-Residence at the

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Institute of Politics. Cannon is a recipient of the Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cannon, Carl M. Living people University of Colorado Boulder alumni American political journalists 1953 births The Baltimore Sun people