Jonathan Karl

— -- Jonathan Karl was named ABC News' senior political correspondent in September 2010. He is responsible for covering national political news for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms, including "World News With Diane Sawyer," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," "ABC News NOW" and ABCNews.com.

Mr. Karl joins Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos every Tuesday on "Good Morning America" for the latest news and analysis of the 2010 midterm elections. In the spring of 2010, Mr. Karl was named the co-anchor of "Top Line," a political webcast that streams live daily at noon ET on ABCNews.com and airs on ABC News NOW, the network's 24-hour digital outlet.

As senior political correspondent, Mr. Karl focuses primarily on Capitol Hill and the 2010 midterm elections. Mr. Karl has taken his campaign reporting on the road. Traveling to states such as Nevada, South Dakota and Delaware, Mr. Karl interviews incumbents, challengers, state party representatives, voters and pundits and has broken news in a number of races.

Mr. Karl brings his creative approach to covering politics through the "Senate Subway Series," interviewing senators such as Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman and John McCain as they travel underground from their offices to the Capitol.

Mr. Karl consistently brings meaning to the ABC News consumer with his "Your Money" stories, which have highlighted the abuse and waste of taxpayer dollars.

In February of 2010, Mr. Karl was an interim anchor for "This Week," where he secured a news-making interview with Vice President Dick Cheney.

Mr. Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the network's senior foreign affairs correspondent, covering the State Department. Mr. Karl spent several months on the campaign trail in 2004 covering the Bush-Cheney campaign.

He co-anchored election night coverage on ABC News NOW, anchoring for more than 14 straight hours.

In December 2005, Mr. Karl was named senior national security correspondent. He has traveled the world for ABC News, reporting from more than two dozen countries on five continents. Mr. Karl reported more extensively on the situation in Darfur, Sudan, than any other network correspondent, visiting Sudan three times in 2005.

He has also broken several stories on Iran's nuclear program and covered the 2004 presidential elections in Russia. Mr. Karl has also traveled internationally with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Mr. Karl previously served as a congressional correspondent for CNN. In his eight years with CNN, he covered Capitol Hill, the White House and the Pentagon. He reported on two presidential elections, President Bill Clinton's impeachment, the NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia and congressional reaction to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In 2001, Mr. Karl won the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for congressional reporting.

During his time on Capitol Hill, Mr. Karl was the first to report on two of the most significant congressional stories in recent years: Sen. Jim Jefford's decision to leave the Republican Party and Trent Lott's decision to step down as Senate majority leader.

In 1998, Mr. Karl was the first reporter to obtain the Starr Report, one of the most sought-after political documents in recent years.

Prior to joining CNN, Mr. Karl worked as an investigative reporter for the New York Post, where he covered Rudy Giuliani's City Hall and the 1994 gubernatorial race.

Mr. Karl has also worked as a researcher and reporter for the New Republic, where he covered a variety of issues ranging from international affairs to U.S. politics to education.

A prolific writer, Mr. Karl has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, Reason, the Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle.

In December 1995, Mr. Karl's non-fiction book, "The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias," was published by Harper-Collins.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1990, where he was editor in chief of the Vassar Spectator.