Manu Raju

Chief Congressional Correspondent, CNN

Manu Raju ’02 is CNN’s chief congressional correspondent. A veteran reporter in Washington, DC, having previously served as a top Capitol Hill correspondent at Politico for seven years, Raju has developed a reputation as a reporter who can find out what politicians are privately discussing out of the public’s view. Raju has also reported for The Hill, Congressional Quarterly, and Inside Washington Publishers. He has been a frequent guest on political talk shows on TV and radio. In both 2021 and 2022, Raju was part of a team of reporters who won the David Bloom award from the Radio and Television Correspondents Association for their coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. He has also won numerous other journalism awards, including the Milwaukee Press Club’s Sacred Cat award, the White House Correspondents Association’s prestigious Merriman Smith award, and many others. Raju got his start in media working at The Badger Herald.