{{short description|American journalist (born 1988)}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Harry Enten on Live From America Podcast.jpg | image_size = | caption = Enten in 2020 | birth_name = Harry Joe Enten | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|03|01}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | spouse = | known_for = Senior political writer and analyst for ''FiveThirtyEight''<br /> Senior writer and analyst for ''CNN Politics'' | alma_mater = Dartmouth College | occupation = Journalist | children = | relatives = Neil Sedaka (uncle) }}
'''Harry Joe Enten''' (born March 1, 1988)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Enten |first=Harry |title=Harry Enten - Twitter Profile |publisher=Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten |access-date=August 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name=Buzzfeed>{{Cite web|title=Everything You Need To Know About Fivethirtyeight's Harry Enten|publisher=BuzzFeed|date=January 30, 2017|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/oberlinhillel/everything-you-need-to-know-about-fivethirtyeight-2imb6 |access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref> is an American journalist who is a senior writer and analyst for ''CNN Politics''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Harry Enten - Senior Writer and Analyst, CNN Politics |publisher=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/profiles/harry-enten |access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref> He was a senior political writer and analyst for the website ''FiveThirtyEight''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/harry-enten/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318031830/http://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/harry-enten/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 18, 2014 |publisher=FiveThirtyEight |title=Harry Enten |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> According to the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', he is of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.<ref name="CJR">{{cite news |title=FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid' Harry Enten represents the new generation of political journalist |publisher=Columbia Journalism Review |first=Pete |last=Vernon |date=October 5, 2016 |url=https://www.cjr.org/special_report/harry_enten_fivethirtyeight_nate_silver_election.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602012156/https://www.cjr.org/special_report/harry_enten_fivethirtyeight_nate_silver_election.php |archive-date=June 2, 2017}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Enten was raised in a Jewish family<ref name=Buzzfeed /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Enten |first=Harry J. |title=Why I'm not on Twitter for Yom Kippur |work=The Guardian|date=September 26, 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/26/twitter-yom-kippur-harry-enten }}</ref><ref name=TabletHaroon>{{Cite web|title=Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul|quote=Our Jew of the week is Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight and a regular on the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast |publisher=Tablet Magazine|date=October 19, 2016 |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/241818/unorthodox-episode-99-fivethirtyeight-harry-enten-haroon-moghul-how-to-be-a-muslim |access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Dartmouth">{{Cite web|last= Platt |first= Bill |title= How Harry Enten '11 Became FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid' |date= 19 October 2016 |publisher=Dartmouth News|url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/10/how-harry-enten-11-became-fivethirtyeights-whiz-kid |access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref> in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.<ref name="CJR"/> Enten was introduced to politics as a child when his father, a judge, took him into the polling booth to help pull the levers for elections. He attended Riverdale Country School. He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who married Enten's aunt.<ref name=TabletHaroon />
Enten graduated ''magna cum laude'' and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2011. Enten chose to attend Dartmouth partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary.<ref name="Dartmouth" /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IsX9AgAAQBAJ&q=Harry+J.+Enten+dartmouth&pg=PP9 |title=Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems |editor-link1=Josep Colomer |editor-first=Josep M. |editor-last=Colomer |publisher=ECPR Press |isbn=9781907301575 |year=2013}}</ref>
Enten began publishing a blog called ''Margin of Error'', and held an internship at NBC News' political unit in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Dartmouth"/><ref name="CJR"/> Prior to working for ''FiveThirtyEight'', Enten was a journalist for ''The Guardian''.<ref name="CJR"/><ref>{{cite news |quote=I am a graduate of Hanover, NH. I graduated with a degree in government summa cum laude with a concentration in statistics and elections. I have previously interned at the NBC Political Unit in Washington D.C. (Spring 2009) & Pollster.com (spring and summer 2010). |first=Harry Joe |last=Enten |url=https://poughies.blogspot.ca/ |publisher=Blogspot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602013300/https://poughies.blogspot.ca/ |archive-date=June 2, 2017 |title=Margin of Error}}</ref>
==''FiveThirtyEight''== Along with Carl Bialik and Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first people Nate Silver hired when ''FiveThirtyEight'' relaunched under ESPN.<ref name="CJR"/><ref name="Politico">{{cite news |publisher=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2013/11/guardian-writer-and-number-cruncher-harry-enten-goes-to-work-for-nate-silver-001324/ |title=Guardian writer and number-cruncher Harry Enten goes to work for Nate Silver |first=Johana |last=Bhuiyan |date=November 13, 2013 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602014120/http://www.politico.com/media/story/2013/11/guardian-writer-and-number-cruncher-harry-enten-goes-to-work-for-nate-silver-001324 |archive-date=June 2, 2017}}</ref> He mostly wrote politics articles for ''FiveThirtyEight'', but he occasionally wrote weather pieces. Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the ''FiveThirtyEight'' politics podcast,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124110836/http://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 24, 2016|title=Politics Podcast – FiveThirtyEight|website=FiveThirtyEight|language=en|access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> alongside host Jody Avirgan and fellow co-hosts 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.<ref>{{Cite podcast |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-has-trump-reshaped-the-gop/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206022429/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-has-trump-reshaped-the-gop/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 6, 2018 |title=Has Trump Remade The GOP? |website=FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast |publisher=FiveThirtyEight |date=2018-02-05 |time=3:12 |access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Silver |first=Stephen |date=2020-07-26 |title=CNN election forecaster Harry Enten speaks about his Jewishness |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/cnn-election-forecaster-harry-enten-speaks-about-his-jewishness-636261 |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}}</ref>
==''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.<ref name="forecastfest">{{cite news |work=CNN|url=https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/turner-podcast-network/runningmate|title=The Forecast Fest on stitcher |author1=Kate Bolduan |author1-link=Kate Bolduan |author2=Harry Enten |author3=John Avlon |author3-link=John Avlon}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.cnn.com/profiles/harry-enten CNN Profiles: Harry Enten]
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