Eli Stokols | |
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Born | 1978 or 1979 (age 44–45) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse | Elena Cecilia Schneider |
Parent(s) | Jeannette J. Stokols Daniel S. Stokols |
Eli Stokols (born 1978/1979) [1] is an American journalist. He is currently a White House reporter for POLITICO.
Stokols was born into a Jewish family, the son of Jeannette J. Stokols and Daniel S. Stokols. [1] He grew up in Irvine, California [2] where his family were members of the Reconstructionist University Synagogue. [3] He graduated from University High School in Irvine in 1997. [4] He later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. [1] While there, he pitched for the Cal baseball team. [5] He subsequently received an M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002. [6]
He is currently a White House reporter for POLITICO. Previously a White House reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he covered the 2016 presidential campaign for The Wall Street Journal. [7] He joined the WSJ's Washington bureau in March 2017. [5] He previously worked as a national reporter for Politico. [8] He joined Politico in the spring of 2016. [5] Prior to that, he covered Colorado politics for nearly a decade at KDVR, and its sister station KWGN-TV, in Denver, Colorado. [7] [9] While in Denver, he hosted, #COpolitics: From the Source, a weekly interview show. [9] In 2013 and 2014, he wrote for 5280 magazine. [10]
Stokols first marriage ended in divorce. [1] On September 15, 2018, he married Elena Cecilia Schneider in an interfaith ceremony at the Augsburg Lutheran Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. [1] They met in 2015 at Politico, where they both worked at the time. [1]
The groom, 39, is a White House reporter in Washington for The Los Angeles Times. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia.