Washington correspondent to speak during Daschle Dialogues at SDSU in September

A famous Washington correspondent has been confirmed as the featured guest for the Daschle Dialogues series at South Dakota State University.

Jonathan Karl, ABC News Chief Washington correspondent who’s covered the White House under four presidents from Dec. 2012 to Jan. 2021 as the chief White House correspondent for ABC News, will speak Sept. 25 on campus.

Karl is the co-anchor of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” has covered eight presidential elections and has broad experience covering Congress, foreign policy and the military. He is the author of two The New York Times bestsellers: “Front Row at the Trump Show” and “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show.”

Karl grew up in the Black Hills and credits his passion for history and journalism to his adolescent years in South Dakota. While living in two adjoining motel rooms in Hill City, his mother and stepfather conducted an oral history for the University of South Dakota, interviewing the men who worked to create Mount Rushmore.

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Karl’s resume includes winning the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement, the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the Radio and TV Correspondents' Association's Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based reporting in 2010 and 2015, and an Emmy Award for coverage of the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Daschle Dialogues is the public series of the Sen. Thomas A. Daschle Congressional Research Study.

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Daschle, a 1969 SDSU graduate, selected SDSU to preserve his official papers and items from his 26-year career in Congress. He was the Senate Democratic Leader from 1995 to 2005, including time as both majority and minority leader. Daschle’s papers have been the basis for research by SDSU faculty, scholars and students.

“I have a great deal of admiration for Jonathan Karl as a professional and look forward to hearing his perspective on today’s political climate and the lessons from history that may provide context for what we face today,” Daschle said in a news release.

Daschle’s previous guests are former Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, NBC broadcaster and author Tom Brokaw and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

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Chuck Raasch, a veteran national reporter with USA Today and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and author of “Imperfect Union: A Father’s Search for his Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg,” will moderate the discussion with Karl and Senator Daschle.

The event is Sept. 25 at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center on the SDSU campus. There will be no cost for the event, as it’s underwritten by private gifts to the Sen. Thomas A. Daschle Congressional Research Study through the SDSU Foundation.

Tickets will be available exclusively online beginning at 9 a.m. Aug. 24 on the SDSU website and are limited to two per person.

This article originally appeared on Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Jonathan Karl of ABC News to speak at SDSU in September