John Heilemann

John Heilemann

John Heilemann

Political Reporter & NBC/MSNBC Analyst, Creator and Host of “The Circus”, Bestselling Author of “Game Change”, Partner and chief political columnist at Puck News

John Heilemann is known to have a “knack for asking candidates thought-provoking, creative questions that virtually no one has ever thought to ask.” He is the creator and host of the heralded and Emmy nominated political docuseries The Circus, a national affairs analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and most recently joined Puck News as Partner and chief political columnist.  He is the co-author of two New York Times No. 1 best sellers, Game Change and Double Down; both of which are widely regarded as “two of the most successful and influential books in history on presidential politics” and “the definitive accounts of the 2008 and 2012 elections, respectively.” Game Change was adapted by HBO Films and went on to win five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and a Peabody Award. Heilemann is also the former managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and host of MSNBC and Bloomberg TV's daily political news and analysis program “With All Due Respect”. Before joining Bloomberg, Heilemann was a staff writer and columnist at New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. His magazine writing has also appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, Time, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and been anthologized in The Best American Political Writing and The Best American Crime Writing.

John Heilemann participated as a moderator at The Common Good Town Hall: “Bridging America’s Divides” featuring panelists; Steven Brill, Frank Bruni, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Congressman David Jolly, George Packer, Heather Cox Richardson, Congressman Tim Ryan, and Andrew Yang.


Heilemann was also the moderator of the Rule of Law, Investigations, Testing the New Supremes discussion at The Common Good in 2019.

 
 

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