Lyle Denniston joins National Constitution Center as Supreme Court correspondent

Legendary journalist Lyle Denniston is joining the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Daily blog as its full-time Supreme Court correspondent, the Center announced today.

Denniston has written for Constitution Daily as a contributor and its constitutional literacy adviser since June 2011. In his new role, Denniston will report at the Court on the constitutional aspects of cases and broader trends involving the Court. He also will participate in other activities related to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

“Lyle Denniston is the Dean of Supreme Court reporters and I’m thrilled and honored that he will be writing full time for the National Constitution Center,” said Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center. “Lyle has been a model of fair-minded, balanced writing about the justices for nearly six decades and it’s impossible to imagine a better Supreme Court correspondent for Constitution Daily.”

Prior to his new role at the Center, which starts this summer, Denniston has been an independent reporter and contractor at the Supreme Court website SCOTUSblog.com for more than 12 years. During that time, SCOTUSblog earned numerous accolades, including the 2013 Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media.

Denniston has covered the Supreme Court since 1958, when Earl Warren, Hugo Black and Felix Frankfurter sat on the high court.

“When I came on board to write for Constitution Daily, I was intrigued by the idea of taking part in ‘smart conversations on the Constitution.’ I hope that I have helped maintain that standard. Now, it will be my challenge and my pleasure to do more to make sense of the Supreme Court in and outside the constitutional realm for our readers. As I finish my tour at SCOTUSblog.com, I am delighted to now enter a new and closer relationship with the superb team already at the Center and at the Daily.”

In the past, Denniston has written for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, the American Lawyer, the Washington Star, the Nebraska City News-Press, and the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal. His commentary has also been featured on National Public Radio.

Denniston is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Society of Professional Journalists and Nebraska Press Association Hall of Fame.

A native of Nebraska, Denniston is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Georgetown University. He is also the author of the definitive book on Supreme Court journalism, “The Reporter and the Law: Techniques for Covering the Courts.”

In addition to his work for the Center, Denniston will be giving a series of public lectures at the University of Baltimore School of Law during the upcoming year.

Constitution Daily (blog.constitutioncenter.org), the official blog of the National Constitution Center, reaches about 500,000 readers monthly, with content about the Constitution and related topics.

For more information about the Center, visit our website at constitutioncenter.org.