Dana Bash

Dana Bash
Bash recording a piece for CNN in Manchester, N.H., on January 10, 2012
Born	Dana Ruth Schwartz (1971-06-15) June 15, 1971 (age 45) Montvale, New Jersey
Education	Pascack Hills High School, New Jersey
Alma mater	The George Washington University
Occupation	Reporter and anchorwoman
Notable credit(s)	Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from National Press Foundation
Spouse(s)	Jeremy Bash (1998–2007) John King (2008–12)
Children	1 (with King)

Dana ("DAN-ah") Bash (born Dana Ruth Schwartz; June 15, 1971) is an American journalist and anchorwoman for CNN who currently acts as the network's chief political correspondent and occasional anchorwoman. Previous to this assignment, she was a White House and Capitol Hill correspondent for the network.

Bash was born to a Reform Jewish family family in Manhattan, the daughter of Frances (née Weinman) and Stu Schwartz. Her father was an ABC News producer who served as the senior broadcast producer for Good Morning America. Her mother is an author and educator in Jewish studies. She has a brother, David Schwartz, who is a New York City-based video producer. She moved around as a child: first to Teaneck, New Jersey when she was two; then Washington D.C. soon after; and last to Montvale, New Jersey where she made her bat mitzvah. Bash was educated at Pascack Hills High School, a public high school in her hometown of Montvale, New Jersey. She graduated cum laude with her bachelor's degree in political communications from George Washington University.

During college, she interned at NBC, CBS, and lastly, CNN which she joined after college working in the tape library. Before becoming an on-air reporter as Dana Schwartz, she was a producer for CNN on Capitol Hill, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Senate. Previous to that assignment, she produced for CNN's weekend programs, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics.