KEVIN TURPIN President, National Journal Group A protégé of David Bradley, Turpin, 34, has helped resurrect the National Journal, transforming it into a must-read for government affairs professionals and finding new revenue lines for the business after it ceased print publication in 2015. Last year, he surpassed the company’s profit goal by 146 percent and watched proudly as his editorial team broke news, including an early report by political writer Josh Kraushaar that Democratic candidate Doug Jones had a strong chance of beating Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race. WA S H I N G T O N L I F E
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ABBY PHILLIP White House Correspondent, CNN Phillip, 29, had always envisioned herself a doctor, but two years into a pre-med program at Harvard University she decided she “hated being in labs and loved interviewing people,” so she began writing for the student newspaper and the rest is history. The political reporter joined the CNN White House team in 2017, after three years at the Washington Post. Before leaving the Post she helped pen a story on the White House’s slow response to Hurricane Maria. “I think it helped to refocus the Trump administration on needing to do more for Puerto Rico,” she says.
MARK SCIALLA Reporter and Producer, PBS NewsHour On his first field assignment for NewsHour, Scialla, 30, covered the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline. He was also on the ground during the deadly Charlottesville protests against a white supremacist march at the University of Virginia. “It was total chaos and exposed the sometimes violent nature of the divisions in this country,” he says. 29