Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was a syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. Born to working class Ukrainian/Lithuanian secular Jews in Joliet, Illinois, Novak went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) and worked for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He then became a reporter for the Associat...
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Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was a syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. Born to working class Ukrainian/Lithuanian secular Jews in Joliet, Illinois, Novak went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) and worked for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He then became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967.
Novak and Evans played a significant role for CNN after the network's founding. He worked as a well-known television personality in programs such as The Capital Gang, Crossfire, and Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields. He also wrote for...
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