Harry Enten

Harry Enten
Enten in 2020
Born
Harry Joe Enten

(1988-03-01) March 1, 1988 (age 38)
The Bronx, New York City, United States
EducationDartmouth College (BA)
OccupationJournalist
EmployerCNN
Known forSenior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight
Senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics
Chief Data Analyst for CNN
RelativesNeil Sedaka (uncle)

Harry Joe Enten (born March 1, 1988) is an American journalist who is the Chief Data Analyst for CNN and host of CNN's Margins of Error podcast. He was previously a senior political writer and analyst for the website FiveThirtyEight. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Enten is representative of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.

Early life and education

Enten was raised in a Jewish family in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. Enten was introduced to politics as a child when his father, a judge, took him into the polling booth to help pull the levers for elections. He attended Riverdale Country School. He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who married Enten's aunt.

Enten graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2011, majoring in government. Enten chose to attend Dartmouth partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary.

Enten began publishing a blog called Margin of Error, and held an internship at NBC News' political unit in Washington, D.C. Prior to working for FiveThirtyEight, Enten was a journalist for The Guardian.

Career

FiveThirtyEight

Along with Carl Bialik and Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first people Nate Silver hired when FiveThirtyEight relaunched under ESPN in 2013. He mostly wrote articles on politics for FiveThirtyEight, but also occasionally wrote weather pieces. Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, alongside Jody Avirgan, Nate Silver, and Clare Malone.

He announced on February 5, 2018, that he was leaving FiveThirtyEight to join CNN's politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.

The Forecast Fest

From April 2019 to March 2020, Kate Bolduan, John Avlon, and Harry Enten produced The Forecast Fest podcast about the 2020 United States presidential election.

CNN

Enten joined CNN in February of 2018. He is their Chief Data Analyst and the host of CNN’s “Margins of Error” podcast, where he focuses on data-driven journalism. Enten was previously a Senior Writer and Analyst for CNN Politics, where he covered politics focusing on poll numbers and electoral trends.

Personal life

Enten is a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan. His uncle is singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka.

References

  1. ↑ Enten, Harry. "Harry Enten - Twitter Profile". Twitter. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
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  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Vernon, Pete (October 5, 2016). "FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid' Harry Enten represents the new generation of political journalist". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Enten, Harry J. (September 26, 2012). "Why I'm not on Twitter for Yom Kippur". The Guardian.
  7. 1 2 "Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul". Tablet Magazine. October 19, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2018. Our Jew of the week is Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight and a regular on the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast
  8. 1 2 3 Platt, Bill (October 19, 2016). "How Harry Enten '11 Became FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid'". Dartmouth News. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  9. ↑ Goyal, Rohit (August 11, 2015). "An Interview with Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight's Senior Political Analyst". The Politic.
  10. ↑ Colomer, Josep M., ed. (2013). Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems. ECPR Press. ISBN 9781907301575.
  11. ↑ Enten, Harry Joe. "Margin of Error". Blogspot. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. I am a graduate of Hanover, NH. I graduated with a degree in government summa cum laude with a concentration in statistics and elections. I have previously interned at the NBC Political Unit in Washington D.C. (Spring 2009) & Pollster.com (spring and summer 2010).
  12. ↑ Bhuiyan, Johana (November 13, 2013). "Guardian writer and number-cruncher Harry Enten goes to work for Nate Silver". Politico. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Politics Podcast – FiveThirtyEight". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on November 24, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Has Trump Remade The GOP?". FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast (Podcast). FiveThirtyEight. February 5, 2018. Event occurs at 3:12. Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  15. ↑ Silver, Stephen (July 26, 2020). "CNN election forecaster Harry Enten speaks about his Jewishness". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  16. ↑ Kate Bolduan; Harry Enten; John Avlon. "The Forecast Fest on stitcher". CNN.
  17. ↑ "CNN's Harry Enten Promoted to Chief Data Analyst". Retrieved October 5, 2026.
  18. ↑ Blitzer, Wolf. Wolf Blitzer and Harry Enten Reflect on Their Lifelong Love of the Buffalo Bills | CNN. Retrieved October 26, 2026.