Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson is msnbc’s Senior Campaign Correspondent.

Carlson joined msnbc in February 2005 from CNN, hosting The Situation with Tucker Carlson and Tucker prior to being named the network’s Senior Campaign Correspondent in March 2008.

At CNN, Carlson was the youngest anchor in the history of that network. While there, he hosted a number of shows and specials, including the network’s political debate program, Crossfire.  During that same period, Carlson also hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered.

A longtime magazine and newspaper writer, Carlson has reported from around the world, most recently from Iraq and Lebanon. He has been a columnist for the New York magazine and Reader’s Digest. He currently writes for Esquire, The Weekly Standard and the New York Times magazine. Carlson began his journalism career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in little rock.  His first book, Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News, was published in the fall of 2003.  In 2006, he competed on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”