Luke Russert

Luke Russert
Luke Russert at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado 2008
Born	Luke Russert August 22, 1985 (1985-08-22) (age 24) Washington, D.C.
Education	B.A. degree in communications, Boston College
Occupation	Journalist

Luke Russert (born August 22, 1985) is an American television and radio personality whose career has benefited greatly from his father's prominence in the television news industry. He is the son of the late renowned broadcast journalist Tim Russert and journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth. He has co-hosted a sports talk program on XM radio with prominent political pundit James Carville called 60/20 Sports. While in college, he worked for the ESPN program Pardon the Interruption.^[1]

Russert graduated from the exclusive St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 2004.^[2] In 2008, following his graduation from Boston College and the subsequent death of his father, NBC News hired Russert as a correspondent covering youth issues in the 2008 presidential election. He was assigned to the Democratic and Republican conventions.^[3][4]

During the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Russert was the only journalist to interview Bill Clinton immediately after his speech to the DNC.

In 2009, Russert was one of seven correspondents [1] in Washington DC competing for one of three open positions on the Radio & Television Correspondence Association board. Russert failed to earn enough votes from his peers to be elected. [2].

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