News covering national political news, becoming the Senior National Security Correspondent in December 2005. In 2006, Karl earned an Emmy Award nomination for his coverage of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Karl was named Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News in December 2012 and held that position through the end of the Trump administration in January 2021. He continues as ABC News' Chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Karl's writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Although Karl is an ABC News correspondent, he has often appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News in his capacity as an author. Controversies In May 2013, Karl was caught in a controversy when he wrote an article that claimed to quote directly from an email sent by a White House advisor. It was later revealed that the quote was inaccurately given to Karl by an unnamed source, and that he himself had never seen the email. Karl apologized for the error, and also for not having stated that the quote was from a detailed summary his source provided, rather than a direct quote from the email. Books Karl is the author of the 1995 book The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias. Front Row at the Trump Show In March 2020, his book Front Row at the Trump Show, written before the COVID-19 pandemic, was released. It debuted at number 3 on the April 19, 2020, New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction best seller list and spent 5 weeks in the top 15. The book was released in paperback with a new afterward in March 2021 and hit number 6 on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction best seller list. In a review on Goodreads, Chris Rosa wrote, "This is how you write a Trump book. Jonathan Karl avoids the common pitfalls of covering Trump: personalization, sensationalism, faux outrage and overstated self-regard. President Donald Trump is a tough subject for journalists because of the game he's playing, which creates a trap for the press into which they frequently dive headfirst. Not Karl. He gets it. With a solid mixture of serious-minded factuality and good-humored prose, Karl provides an accessible understanding of the strangest White House in U.S. history. He also explains, calmly and rationally, the dangers presented when our leaders disregard truth