Jonathan P. Decker is an American journalist and

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correspondent. Since 1995, he has served as a member of the

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, and is correspondent for

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. From 2014 to 2021, Decker was the White House correspondent for

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. He was also previously a White House correspondent for SiriusXM's "White House Insider" program, and several other news organizations.

Early life and education

Decker was born in Washington, D.C., and attended the

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at the

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, before becoming a financial analyst on

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for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. After leaving Wall Street, Decker became an aide to U.S. Senator

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, Republican of Pennsylvania, while also pursuing his master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations.

Career

Following the death of Senator Heinz, Decker fully pursued a career in journalism, where he first hosted a radio program on Pennsylvania public radio, as well as anchoring local cut-ins for

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. Decker then relocated to Miami, Florida, where he joined

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as their Miami correspondent, as well as ''

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'' and

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, the local NBC affiliate in Miami. While there, Decker covered stories such as the Major League Baseball strike,

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, and reported from

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and

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. In 1995, Decker moved back to Washington, D.C. to take a position as reporter and producer of the

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program '' Nightly Business Report'', where he covered the

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, and the government shutdown. Decker became part of the White House Press Corps in 1995 and is an elected member of the Board of the White House Correspondents' Association. Decker was a White House correspondent for

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and SiriusXM, including for their program "White House Insider". In December 2014, it was announced that Decker had joined

as their White House correspondent. In March 2017, Decker was involved in a controversy in which he confronted a reporter from ''

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'',

Lucian Wintrich Lucian Baxter Wintrich IV (né Einhorn; born May 24, 1988) is an American artist, photographer, writer, speaker, and the former White House correspondent for Radical right (United States), far-right fake news website ''The Gateway Pundit''. Wint ...

, a Gay Jewish reporter, and announced to the White House briefing room that Wintrich's news organization hated "blacks, Jews, Hispanics," according to a

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reporter.

References

External links

Biography
at the

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