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Cillizza previously was a contributor to Scripps News and, before that, served as political reporter and digital editor-at-large for CNN from 2017-2022. At CNN, he launched the brand The Point with Chris Cillizza. He spent 10 years at the Washington Post, founding the daily political blog The Fix.
Cillizza has a Substack newsletter called So What, and owns the production company Cheney Road Productions. He also hosts a weekly series for Monumental Sports Network called Politics Aside with Chris Cillizza. He has a So What YouTube channel with more than 61,000 subscribers.
Cillizza is the author two books, Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency and The Gospel According to The Fix.
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