Jules Joseph Witcover (born July 16, 1927) is a retired American journalist, author, and political columnist.

[1] Together with Jack Germond, Witcover co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for over 24 years.

He was also one of the reporters featured in the 1972 book on campaign journalism, The Boys on the Bus, and eventually came to be seen as a "journalistic institution," according to media critic Howard Kurtz.

Published in 2014, Kirkus Reviews described the work as a "valuable book of American history.

"[7] Other work includes Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew, Public Affairs (2007),[8] and Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption.