Ken Bode has been an award-winning political analyst for PBS, CNN, and NBC.
The Biographer's Craft
Ken Bode has been an award-winning political analyst for PBS, CNN, and NBC, covering every political campaign and presidential reign since 1976. This experience has made him one of the most knowledgeable experts on the presidency and the men who have held the office.
Bode is the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University. He also writes a weekly column for The Indianapolis Star, the state's largest newspaper.
In 1992 Bode covered the presidential election as a correspondent and analyst for CNN. During the primaries and national conventions, he was an anchor booth analyst with Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff. He also moderated the South Dakota presidential primary debate and was a panelist for the New Hampshire debate. As part of CNN's political series, Democracy in America, Bode reported and wrote two award-winning, hour-long documentaries: Bill Clinton of Arkansas, winner of the National Academy of Cable Programming's Cable ACE Award, and the Emmy Award-winning The Public Mind of George Bush. The series won the 1992 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for Washington based national affairs reporting.
From 1994 to 1999, Ken Bode served as PBS' senior correspondent and moderator of Washington Week In Review, a panel of distinguished journalists who cover the White House, foreign policy, Congress and federal agencies and the politics underlying each of these. For the 1996 presidential elections, in addition to his work with Washington Week in Review, Bode resumed his position as the national political analyst and principal correspondent for CNN's Campaign USA '96 political coverage.
Ken Bode is a 1961 graduate of the University of South Dakota and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina.
