Sahil Kapur

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Sahil Kapur
Born (1986-12-28) December 28, 1986 (age 38)
NationalityAmerican
Education Claremont McKenna College (BA)
OccupationPolitical Journalist
Years active2009–present
Employer NBC News

Sahil Kapur is a political journalist and reporter who is the senior national political reporter at NBC News. He covers Capitol Hill, elections, politics and public policies in Washington, D.C. He mostly writes on the network's website, NBCNews.com and appears regularly on NBC News Now. He previously worked at Bloomberg News and reported a variety of politics and policy issues. [1]

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Early life and education

Born in 1986 at Houston, Texas, Kapur attended Claremont McKenna College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and government in 2009. [2]

Career

He began his career as an editorial intern at HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post) until August 2009 and started freelancing for several media outlets while he was based in Washington, D.C. such as The Guardian , The Washington Independent , and The New Republic . [3]

After working at multiple publications especially at TPM Media LLC as a congressional reporter which became a breakthrough point in his career, Kapur was hired at Bloomberg News in 2015 and became its national political reporter in its politics section and was based back in Washington, D.C. reporting from Capitol Hill. Since then, he provided numerous reports and insights often appearing on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, PBS, NPR among others. He covered the 2016 United States Presidential election, the 2018 United States elections, among other numerous topics on politics. [4]

Kapur joined NBC News as a national political reporter in 2020 and continues to be based in Washington, D.C. covering Capitol Hill and all of Washington, D.C.'s metro area. [5] He covered the 2020 United States Presidential election and following his promotion to senior national political reporter, he covered the 2022 United States elections. [6]

References

  1. "NBC News Author Sahil Kapur". NBC News.
  2. Bergman, Anne (September 23, 2022). "Journalist alumni reflect on DC careers at the Athenaeum". Claremont McKenna College. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
  3. "Sahil Kapur Latest Articles". The New Republic.
  4. O'Shea, Chris (April 3, 2015). "Bloomberg Politics adds two". Adweek.
  5. Katz, A.J. (January 18, 2020). "CNN Digital Producer Kelly Daniel heads to NBC News to run the streaming service's morning show; Sahil Kapur joins NBC News as senior national political reporter". Adweek.
  6. Ahmed, Mariam (January 3, 2022). "NBC promotes Kapur to post of senior national political reporter". Talking Biz News. Retrieved October 7, 2025.