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Dan Hirschhorn is a reporter, writer and journalist. He is currently a national politics reporter at POLITICO, based in Washington, D.C.

He was hired by POLITICO in late 2010 to start up and run its new 2012 LIVE section, managing content and supervising reporters as a deputy editor to fill an intensive, 24-hour news cycle. Dan returned to reporting, his greatest passion, in the summer of 2011, and now covers the presidential election and congressional races for POLITICO.

A graduate of Brandeis University, he started his full-time professional career at The Bulletin, a Monday-Friday broadsheet in Philadelphia, and later worked atPolitickerPA.com. When that Web site was shuttered by its parent company, Dan founded pa2010.com, a news site that quickly became the go-to authority for Pennsylvania political insiders. The site attracted more than 25,000 unique monthly visitors who made up the state's most influential audience, and pa2010.com was the window into Pennsylvania politics for mainstream media at the local and national levels.

Dan believes that journalists should be passionate about the communities they cover, and brings that attitude to every assignment.