Michael Tackett is an American journalist who covers national politics for The New York Times.
[1] He is a former recipient of the White House Correspondent's Association's Edgar A. Poe Award for National Reporting.
Tackett was appointed Managing Editor of Bloomberg LP in August 2008, a month after he left The Tribune.
[4] He remained at Bloomberg until 2013, when he became a national political reporter for The New York Times based in Washington.
Tackett is also author of the nonfiction book The Baseball Whisperer, published by Houghton Mifflin in July 2016,[6] as well as the 2024 biography of Mitch McConnell, The Price of Power.