1. Manu Raju is anchor of the Sunday edition of CNN's Inside Politics with Manu Raju.
22 Facts About Manu Raju
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Manu Raju has won multiple journalism awards for his reporting on DC and his coverage of campaign politics.
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Manu Raju moderated debates for the 2014 US Senate election in Colorado and the 2014 Colorado gubernatorial election.
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Manu Raju has regularly interviewed major political figures on national TV, including House Speakers Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, former Senate minority leader Harry Reid, and Senators Marco Rubio, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
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Manu Raju's father, Tonse Raju, is a neonatologist and formerly a professor of pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Manu Raju's grandfather Gopalakrishna Adiga was a poet from India who wrote in Kannada.
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Manu Raju first started working on the assignment desk at WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin, before moving to Washington, DC in 2002.
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Manu Raju later worked for Congressional Quarterly, The Hill, and Politico, where he reported for seven years before joining CNN in September 2015.
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Manu Raju has developed a reputation for finding out what politicians are discussing behind the scenes, and broke major stories during the 2013 government shutdown and during Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's high-profile reelection race in 2014.
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In 2016 for CNN, Manu Raju was the network's lead correspondent covering Senator Marco Rubio's presidential campaign.
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Manu Raju extensively covered the GOP establishment's struggle with Donald Trump and broke big news in high-profile Senate races, including in New Hampshire.
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In 2017, Manu Raju was featured on the cover of India Abroad newspaper, which dubbed him the "King of the Hill" for his reporting on key decision-makers in the United States and on Capitol Hill.
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However, CNN stated it would not take disciplinary action as Manu Raju had followed CNN's editorial standards process.
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Manu Raju broke a major news story in January 2017 when he detailed a stock trade that raised ethical and legal questions for Tom Price, President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services nominee.
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On January 6,2021, Manu Raju was broadcasting inside the US Capitol during the attack on the building, reporting in real-time events as they were unfolding.
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In 2021, CNN announced Manu Raju had been promoted to the network's chief congressional correspondent.
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In 2012, Manu Raju was part of a team of four reporters that won the White House Correspondents Association's prestigious Merriman Smith Memorial Award for presidential reporting under deadline pressure for their coverage of the 2011 debt ceiling crisis.
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In 2015, Manu Raju was awarded first prize by the Society of Professional Journalists in DC for beat coverage of the 2014 midterm elections, and a Folio Eddie Award for a feature profile he co-authored on Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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In 2017, Manu Raju was honored with the 2016 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based reporting of Congressional and political affairs for his coverage of Congress and campaign politics.
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Manu Raju was given the award at the 2017 Radio and TV Correspondents Association dinner in Washington, where the host, Bobby Bones, credited his "tenacity" and "relentless" coverage.
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Manu Raju and his wife, Archana Mehta, are the parents of twins, a boy and girl, born in 2015.
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Manu Raju's brother, Sharat Manu Raju is a film and TV director.