Jake Tapper is ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent. He landed the job the day after the 2008 election, after slogging through the long campaign. He has also been a generous and helpful colleague to me in my rookie year at the White House.

Greg Grunberg has had a pretty great career. Actually, he’s in the process of having a whole bunch of pretty great careers. You may know him best as psychic cop Matt Parker from NBC’s Heroes, or as the pilot from Lost, or Agent Weiss from Alias, or – as I do, and always will – [...]

Meghan McCain first crossed my radar during the 2008 Presidential campaign, when the media tried to pin a gaffe on her.  Like most things that have been thrown at her since then, it didn’t stick.

You probably know Joy Behar from her usual location – weekday mornings, sitting around a table with several other women, talking about news and life and interviewing guests, always inserting her own unique brand of humor into the discussion. As an original member of The View, the native New Yorker has spent more than 12 years in that role on ABC. Now she adds a new position – beginning tonight, she hosts a 9pmET news/talk show on HLN, the sister network of CNN. Behar has reached into the cable news arena before, as a frequent guest and sometime guest host on CNN’s Larry King Live. Now she’ll be his direct competitor. Behar always likes to talk on TV – she took a few minutes (she’s busy launching a show) to give her thoughts for the latest installment of 5QQ – Five Quick Questions.

Major Garrett is Fox News’ Senior White House Correspondent and the occupant of Row 2, Seat 4 (both the seat and the blog). He is also the 3rd member of the Cartoon White House Press Corps (South Park icons FTW!) He’s a tough, tenacious questioner of the Obama White House, and while his exchanges with [...]

David Javerbaum is the “Consulting Producer” of The Daily Show, which is what they call you when you’ve been writer, Head Writer, Supervising Producer, tried to quit to write the lyrics for a Broadway musical, got called back to be Executive Producer, did that for a few years, got nominated for a Tony for that [...]

A.J. Daulerio is the editor of Deadspin.com, pretty much the top sports blog around and so enjoyably written that even non-sports people are fans, perhaps because of headlines like this: Mets Third Base Coach Does Not Like My Pants And Will Not Eat My Poop Sandwich (UPDATE). (It ‘s the helpful updates that make the [...]

em>Touré is a journalist, author and cultural critic. He is also an MSNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Dylan Ratigan‘s Morning Meeting and other shows. Whether it’s music, pop culture or politics, Touré never shies away from weighing in on the debate. For 140-character thoughts, you can check his Twitter feed, and his opinions on Entourage have already been seen here on Mediaite. We asked Touré for his 5QQ (Five Quick Questions) take:

Cindi Leive is the editor-in-chief of Glamour, Conde Nast’s 2.35-million circ juggernaut with a balance sheet as healthy as a cover girl’s flowing mane. Under Leive, the magazine has enjoyed tremendous success and critical acclaim, racking up over 170 journalism awards, including numerous “General Excellence” nominations at the National Magazine Awards (it won in 2005, [...]

Gina Trapani knows how much time you waste. Not because she’s secretly watching you through your computer — though she probably could, she’s that smart — but because, as the founding editor of Lifehacker, she’s made a career out of finding ways to improve productivity and efficiency in your wired life. She’s probably saved thousands [...]

Nora Ephron is what’s known in the business as a quadruple threat: writer, director, blogger and chef. Somehow she manages to pull all of those together in her latest film, Julie & Julia —which she directed and for which she wrote the screenplay, about a cook, a blogger, and blogging about cooking. Okay that’s putting [...]

A whole lot of people wake up on Saturday mornings with Scott Simon. Simon is the long-time host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, and the fact that he boasts 800,000-plus twitter followers is a small measure of the program’s reach. Today he answers our Five Quick Questions.

Kurt Andersen , who got his start editing at the Harvard Lampoon has since edited and contributed to an impressive list of publications — Time, New York and The New Yorker, to name a few. He has also founded a few titles of his own, Spy and Inside magazines among them. Kurt has written non-fiction and [...]

Luke Russert is a Washington D.C.-based correspondent for NBC News covering Capital Hill, after being hired this time last year as a reporter covering youth issues. On the Web, he regularly writes for the First Read blog on MSNBC, and of course, you can find him on Twitter. There’s radio too – he continues hosting “60/20 Sports” with James Carville on Sirius/XM. Today the 23-year-old Russert participates in our latest edition of 5QQ – Five Quick Questions:

Olivier Knox has covered the White House for AFP since December 2000, before which he covered Al Gore’s failed run for the presidency and Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, which were surely not related. Knox, the proudly bilingual offspring of a French mother and American dad, enjoys pointing out that the AFP is the world’s oldest [...]

David Folkenflik is NPR’s media correspondent and the man whom Geraldo Rivera once called “a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter.” His professional record indicates otherwise: Folkenflik has won numerous awards for press criticism and investigative reporting, and has broken/advanced the ball on many big media stories like the Tribune Co. woes as well as bringing [...]

Bill Simmons is our inaugural participant in a new recurring feature we call 5QQ – Five Quick Questions. Simmons is a columnist and podcaster for Page2 on ESPN.com and a former writer for ESPN the Magazine. He is known by the nickname “The Sports Guy” (formerly “The Boston Sports Guy”). His ESPN.com column is written [...]