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Aug 14, 2015: Jeff Zeleny: CNN: Al Gore for president? Don't believe 2016 whispers, associates say
Sept 16, 2014: Politicus USA: A Confident Harry Reid Says If the Election Were Held Today, Dems Would Keep the Senate
ABC News Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny tweeted Tuesday afternoon, “Asked if he feels Democratic majority slipping away, @SenatorReid tells me: “No.”
Aug 17, 2014: News Busters: ABC, CBS Hype Perry Indictment, Promote ‘Political Embarrassment Of A Mugshot’
Reporter Jeff Zeleney promoted how “it's a tough legal case to prove, but could still complicate his political ambitions” but never once considered that the lawsuit was designed to hurt his political ambitions from the beginning.
July 25, 2014: Newslo: Elizabeth Warren Fans Excited by Her Latest Refusal to Run for President
Fans of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are giddy over a newly-released interview with ABC’s Jeff Zeleny, where she emphatically states three times that she is not running for president in 2016.
May 19, 2014: News Busters: The Media’s One-Side-Fits-All Approach to Net Neutrality
ABC’s This Week host (and former President Bill Clinton staffer) George Stephanopoulos first ran a Jeff Zeleny terribly mal-informed recorded piece.  In which the only person with whom Zeleny spoke was Tim Wu - the creator of Net Neutrality.  Wu was not identified as having done so - his opinion was merely taken at face value and presented unopposed.
May 14, 2013: ABC News: ABC News Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny Hosts “The Fine Print”
ABC News Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny hosts “The Fine Print,” a new show in the daily, digital video series “Power Players” from ABC News and Yahoo! News starting Tuesday, May 14th.
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Feb 27, 2013: Politico: Why did Jeff Zeleny go to ABC News?
From my report on ABC News' efforts to court political reporters: Memo to Washington: ABC News is serious about politics.
Feb 25, 2013: Huffington Post: Jeff Zeleny Joins ABC News As Senior Washington Correspondent
Zeleny, who previously covered politics for the Times, will join the network as senior Washington correspondent. Zeleny will also appear regularly on ABC's Sunday public affairs program "This Week."

Prior to joining ABC News, Mr. Zeleny was the national political correspondent for The New York Times, where he was the lead reporter on the 2012 presidential campaign. He also covered Barack Obama's road to the White House in 2008 and his administration, traveling to Cairo in June 2009 to cover the President's first major address to the Muslim world and to Oslo to cover the president receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. He also covered Congress for the Times.  Before his tenure at the Times, Mr. Zeleny was the national political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. There, he covered the 2004 presidential campaign and the first years of the George W. Bush administration.

Mr. Zeleny joined the Chicago Tribune in 2000 as a reporter on the Metropolitan desk in Chicago, where he was a member of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for documenting gridlock in the nation's air traffic system.  He began his career at the Des Moines Register, where he covered the opening round of the 2000 presidential campaign. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1996, where he studied news-editorial journalism and political science. He has also worked at The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Florida Times Union and the Lincoln Journal Star.  Jeff Zeleny is a native of Exeter, Nebraska and he currently lives in Washington D.
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