Molly Ball


Molly Ball is an American political journalist and writer. She is the national political correspondent for Time magazine. She is the author of a 2020 biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Career

Ball has covered U.S. politics for The Atlantic, where she won the 2012 Toner Prize for Excellence in Public Reporting for her coverage of the 2012 United States elections, including the 2012 United States presidential election and the 2012 gay marriage referenda. She has been a reporter for Politico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun. She joined Time as National Political Correspondent in 2017.

Recognition

In 2019, she received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Her other awards include the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis, the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

Personal life

Ball was raised in Colorado and Idaho. She graduated from Yale University in 2001. She is married and has three children.
In 2007, she won $100,000 on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.