| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Molly Ball |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available on the year she was born. |
| Sister | Not Known |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Dating / Partner / Boyfriend | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No of Kids | 2 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Jewish |
| Nationality | American |
| Is Molly Ball related to Lucille Ball? | Despite their last names being similar, the two do not seem to be related. |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
The curly-haired brunette and Colorado native Molly Ball is a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. In her position, she covers national politics. In 2012, Molly won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting for her coverage of the 2012 Presidential campaign.
Molly Ball Family :
- Molly Ball was born in Denver, Colorado, to two German parents.
- Both her parents had careers as college professors & are now retired.
- She lived in Colorado for her entire childhood.
- Currently, she lives in Washington, DC with her husband David Kihara.
- The couple are parents to two children, Benjamin and Miriam, born in 2009 and 2013 respectively.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- As a teenager, Ball attended Cherry Creek High School in Englewood from which she graduated in 1997.
- After she graduated high school, Molly pursued her Bachelor of Arts in English Language and English Literature at Yale University. She graduated from Yale in 2001.
Professional Career, Net worth and Salary :
- While at Yale, Molly was a senior editor on the Yale Herald since 1999. She also was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine.
- She reported for the Hartford, Connecticut bureau of The New York Times in a part-time position.
- Ball also interned at The Toledo Blade in Toledo, Ohio, in the summer of 1999 and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2000.
- In 2001, The Washington Post hired her as an intern. Here she worked as a reporter among many well-qualified interns.
- After graduating Yale in 2001, she became a reporter for Cambodia Daily, a gig she held for two years. During this time, she lived in Cambodia.
- She then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, and joined the Las Vegas Sun as a General Assignment Reporter for two years from 2004 to 2006.
- In February 2006, Ball became a political reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where she stayed for three and a half years until August 2009.
- In August 2009, she received the prestigious Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she worked for ten months until May 2010.
- From September 2010 to September 2011, Molly worked as a national politics reporter for Politico, which is based in Arlington County, Virginia.
- In October 2011, Molly started her current job in Washington, D.C. as a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine.
- Molly has made appearances as an analyst on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, PBS’s Washington Week, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and NPR.
Awards and Achievements :
- Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting
- Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism
- Lee Walczack Award for Political Analysis
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Molly won $100,000 in the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2007.
- She was not allowed to watch television growing up and considers herself “culturally illiterate,” as she does not get many pop culture references.
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I recently came across some concerning information regarding journalist Molly Ball, published in the Atlantic. According to the article, there was a defamation lawsuit involving her reporting, which resulted in a significant settlement to the plaintiff, including retractions to the original story by her publisher. Given this background, I urge readers to approach her articles with caution and critically evaluate the facts presented. For those interested in the details of the case and the implications for her reporting credibility, I recommend reviewing the Washington Post’s coverage to better understand the context and the facts.
Very smart lady. We need her in the political arena. She’s got what it takes for a new view of this country and those who are doing such a poor job of leading it.
Molly,
You should make more of your life than reporting. Run for office and help your country. Although I do not agree with some of your far left views, we need smart people like you to lead this country.
Your article “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” is riveting. Someone should make it into a movie. Thank you for your hard work.
This woman is an expert gaslighter on steroids. Great manipulative propagandist. After today’s assault on democracy and her participation in it, one can NEVER trust the media again. Her legacy will be the mouthpiece of new fascism.
One does not “graduate college. ” As an intransitive verb, the preposition “from” is called for. The solecism of omitting “from” is increasingly common, but that does not make it right.
Molly, your article in this weeks Time Magazine entitled “Person of the Year” is quite incredible. Thank you for your hard work and journalistic skills. Much appreciated.