Ken Rudin is an American

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Early life and education

Rudin was born in the

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in New York City, where he attended P.S. 64, J.H.S. 82 and William Howard Taft High School. After high school, he moved to

Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee is a borough at the eastern border of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, situated along the Hudson River atop the Palisades. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 40,191. As of the 2010 U.S. census, th ...

. He graduated from

Pace University Pace University is a private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1906 by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace as a business school. Pac ...

with a B.A. in political science.

Career

During the 1960s, Rudin began collecting

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; he now has a collection of more than 70,000 campaign items. Rudin spent eight years from 1983 to 1991 at

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, where he was the deputy political director and reportorial producer on Capitol Hill. He was also managing editor of The Hotline from 1994 to 1997. He was the political editor for

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(NPR) and was involved with political news on a variety of NPR programs. Rudin also co-hosted a weekly

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called ''It's All Politics'', a segment called "The Political Junkie" on the NPR program ''

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,'' and wrote a column of the same name for npr.org. After leaving NPR in 2013, Rudin began his own weekly program, ''Ken Rudin's Political Junkie''.

References

External links

The Political Junkie
- Ken Rudin's Political blog on NPR.org * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American radio journalists NPR personalities {{US-radio-bio-stub