Andrew Kirtzman

In his career as a reporter, Andrew Kirtzman has written a biography of Rudy Giuliani, covered more than a dozen national political campaigns for print and television, and hosted two of New York's most widely watched public affairs shows. He has spent months at a time reporting abroad, covering the fallout from the Iraq war in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. In September 1999, Brill's Content magazine named Kirtzman one of New York's 10 Most Influential Journalists. In 2003 his week-in-review feature "Kirtzman's Column" won an Emmy Award for outstanding political programming. Kirtzman attended the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, receiving his degree in journalism from NYU. Born and raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he currently resides in NoHo.