Mark Knoller

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Mark Knoller is a former correspondent with CBS best known for his reporting on the White House. He has covered every American president since Gerald Ford, and started gathering statistics on the presidents' daily activities in 1996. [1] [2]

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Early life

Knoller is originally from Brooklyn, NY and graduated from New York University. [1] [3]

Career

On May 28, 2020, it was reported that CBS had laid off Knoller. He tweeted that day that he was still on the job and was waiting to see what he would do next. The layoff was greeted by a tremendous outpouring of support for Knoller from all sides of the political divide. [4] [5]

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References

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  2. Williamson, Elizabeth (2010-03-31). "Trivial Pursuit: One Man's Quest to Catalog Presidential Minutiae". The Wall Street Journal . ISSN   0099-9660. Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
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  4. "Mark Knoller Laid off from CBS News, Journalists React". 28 May 2020.
  5. Nam, Rafael (2020-06-19). "Veteran CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller confirms layoff" . Retrieved 2021-03-13.