Sahil Kapur

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Sahil Kapur
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 on a variety of politics and policy issues. [1]

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Early life and education

Kapur graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2009. [2]

Career

He has worked at The New Republic , [3] and was hired at Bloomberg News in 2015 as a political reporter from Capitol Hill. [4]

Kapur joined NBC News as a national political reporter in 2020, 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.