Background
Capehart grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Saint Benedict"s Preparatory School.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Carleton College.
Career
He writes for The Washington Post"s PostPartisan blog and is a contributor for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.
He is a graduate of Carleton College. Prior to his work with the Washington Post and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, Capehart was a researcher for National Broadcasting Company"s The Today Show. In 2000, he left the NYDN to work at Bloomberg News and afterward, he advised and wrote speeches for Michael Bloomberg during Bloomberg"s 2001 run for the mayoralty of New York City.
In 2002, he returned to the NYDN, serving as deputy editor of the editorial page until 2004.
In December 2004, Capehart joined the global public relations company Hill & Knowlton as a Senior Vice President and senior counselor of public affairs He joined the staff of the Washington Post as a journalist and editorial board member in 2007.
He currently serves in that capacity, in addition to being a contributing commentator for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.
In February 2016, Capehart published an accusation against presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, alleging the Sanders campaign has been misrepresenting a photograph showing Sanders speaking at a civil rights sit-in in the 1960"s, writing, the campaign should "stop physically placing him where he existed only in spirit," arguing that the photo showed another activist Bruce Rappaport. The photographer/documentarian of the event Danny Lyon argued against this and revealed other photos of Sanders from the sit-in.
Many people expressed frustration with Capehart, accusing him of staging a "smear" on Sanders.
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Capehart was a key contributor to a New York Daily News editorial team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Best Editorial Writing. The award was for a series of editorials regarding Harlem"s Apollo Theater. He was a 2011 Esteem Honoree, a distinction given to individuals in recognition of efforts in supporting the African American and LGBT communities in the areas of entertainment, media, civil rights, business and art
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Subsequently, he worked for the New York Daily News (NYDN), serving as a member of its editorial board from 1993 to 2000. At the time of his hiring, Capehart was youngest-ever member of that newspaper"s editorial board.
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Capehart was a key contributor to a New York Daily News editorial team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Best Editorial Writing. The award was for a series of editorials regarding Harlem's Apollo Theater. He was a 2011 Esteem Honoree, a distinction given to individuals in recognition of efforts in supporting the African American and LGBT communities in the areas of entertainment, media, civil rights, business and art.Capehart was a key contributor to a New York Daily News editorial team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Best Editorial Writing. The award was for a series of editorials regarding Harlem's Apollo Theater. He was a 2011 Esteem Honoree, a distinction given to individuals in recognition of efforts in supporting the African American and LGBT communities in the areas of entertainment, media, civil rights, business and art.