In 1985, King joined the
Associated Press where he began as a writer. In 1991, King was named chief political correspondent and headed the AP's political coverage of the
1992 and
1996 presidential elections. Also in 1991, King won the top reporting prize from the Associated Press Managing Editors Association for his coverage of the
Gulf War in
Kuwait. In 1997, King joined
CNN where he served as the senior
White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005. In 2005, King was named CNN's chief national correspondent, a position he still holds. From 2014 to 2021, he anchored the Sunday morning (and more frequently during presidential-election years) news program
Inside Politics, which features a rotating roundtable of members of the media who share their insights of current political topics with King. He frequently appears on the nightly news programs
The Situation Room and
Anderson Cooper 360° and sometimes fills in as anchor. King uses the
Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, nicknamed the "Magic Wall" or "Magic Map". First used during the
primaries of the
2008 presidential campaign, it allows him to display and manipulate graphics and maps of polling and election results. He and the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall have both been featured in a
Daily Show segment, as well as CNN coverage of the US Presidential Election in 2016 and 2020. Just prior to the 2009 US presidential inauguration, King began hosting a new talk show
State of the Union, which replaced CNN's
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. With
Lou Dobbs' sudden resignation from the network on November 12, 2009, CNN announced that King would take over Dobbs' timeslot in early 2010. On January 31, 2010, King announced that CNN's senior political reporter,
Candy Crowley, would replace him as anchor of
State of the Union. King began hosting his new weeknight show
John King, USA, on March 22, 2010. On May 2, 2011, John King was the CNN anchor who confirmed the death of
Osama bin Laden to their viewers. On January 19, 2012, King moderated a Republican presidential debate before the South Carolina Primary.
John King, USA was canceled in early 2012, with the final episode airing on June 29, 2012. On April 17, 2013, King, citing law enforcement sources, erroneously reported that a suspect in the April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing had been identified by police and that the suspect was a
dark-skinned male. King was the first to erroneously report on this identification of a suspect; other news outlets, such as
Fox News, soon erroneously reported that a suspect had been arrested. King received widespread praise for his coverage of the
2020 United States presidential election. From 2016 to 2023, King hosted the weekday edition of the CNN morning show
Inside Politics. On January 11, 2021,
Abby Phillip was announced as the new anchor on the Sunday edition of
Inside Politics, replacing King, starting Sunday, January 24, 2021. The new show is called
Inside Politics Sunday with Abby Phillip. In April 2023, it was announced that his colleague and ex-wife
Dana Bash would succeed him as solo anchor of
Inside Politics in mid-June, while he embarked on a new project dealing with election politics. == References ==