Karen Travers

Karen Travers joined ABC News in 2000 and is currently the digital reporter covering the Obama White House. This is her second stint on the White House beat, after covering President George W. Bush's second term.

Karen Travers joined ABC News in 2000 and currently is the deputy political director.

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Travers is a regular on-air contributor to ABC NewsNow, the network's broadband entity, and she files regularly for ABCNews.com

She most recently served as the deputy political director for ABC News' Election 2008 coverage, reporting for all shows and platforms, and taking the lead for the network's reporting on the Democratic and Republican delegate processes. In her role in the political unit, Travers covered several key battleground states and reported from several presidential debates and both the Democratic and Republican conventions.

From December 2004 through June 2007, before joining ABC News' political unit, Travers worked as a White House producer, traveling on President Bush's domestic and foreign trips. At the White House, she was responsible for ABC News' editorial coverage and planning for events, speeches and breaking news.

Before the White House assignment, Travers covered the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign as a reporter and was a researcher for Ted Koppel at "Nightline."

A native of Blue Bell, Pa., Travers graduated in 2000 with a degree in American government from Georgetown University, where she served as editor in chief of The Hoya. She earned a master's degree in liberal studies from Georgetown in 2003.