[3][4] He attended Boston Latin School, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island.

[5] After divorcing Makie, King married his second wife, fellow CNN anchor Dana Bash on May 25, 2008.

He frequently appears on the nightly news programs The Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360° and sometimes fills in as anchor.

First used during the primaries of the 2008 presidential campaign, it allows him to display and manipulate graphics and maps of polling and election results.

He and the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall have both been featured in a Daily Show segment, as well as CNN coverage of the US Presidential Election in 2016 and 2020.

[14] Just prior to the 2009 US presidential inauguration, King began hosting a new talk show State of the Union, which replaced CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

[15] On January 31, 2010, King announced that CNN's senior political reporter, Candy Crowley, would replace him as anchor of State of the Union.

On May 2, 2011, John King was the CNN anchor who confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden to their viewers.