Harry Enten

Harry Joe Enten (born March 1, 1988) is an American journalist who is a senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics. He was 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 began publishing a blog called Margin of Error, and held an internship at NBC News' political unit in Washington, D.C.

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 politics articles 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.