Dana Ruth Bash is a CNN journalist, news anchor, Inside Politics host, and co-anchor of State of the Union.

Dana Bash is the mother of Jonah Frank King whom she had with her ex-husband John King. Since Dana Bash’s son is quite young, there is not much information about him.

Dana Bash worked as a producer for CNN after graduating from college. She was in charge of producing weekend shows such as “Late Edition,” “Evans & Novak,” and “Inside Politics.”

For CNN, Bash has covered numerous presidential primaries and debates, as well as midterm elections. She moderated the 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate and anchored special coverage of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Dana Bash began co-hosting CNN’s Sunday morning programme “State of the Union” with fellow anchor Jake Tapper in 2021.

Dana Bash has received numerous awards for her journalistic work. She was a member of the team that won the Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in congressional reporting in 2012.

She later received the National Press Foundation’s Sol Taishoff Award in 2019. Bash has also won the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award three times in a row.

Among her other honours is an honorary doctorate from Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire.