Sasha Issenberg is an American journalist. His articles have been published in ''

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Biography

Issenberg was born to a

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family and is a 2002 graduate of

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. In 2016, he covered the 2016 presidential campaign for Bloomberg News. In 2016, he co-founded the company

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in real-time, publishing the results of turnout tracking at Poll Locations online throughout the day. In 2018, he was named the UC Regents' Professor at UCLA, where he taught a course on understanding presidential campaign victories through the stories reporters, academics, and historians tell about those victories. His writing typically focuses on politics, business, diplomacy, and culture. Issenberg covered the 2008 election as a reporter for ''The Boston Globe''.

Books

He is the author of the book ''

The Sushi Economy ''The Sushi Economy'' by Sasha Issenberg is a nonfiction book about sushi and globalization. ''The Sushi Economy'' uses the booming business, culture, and cuisine of raw fish to examine how the integration of local economies through trade works in ...

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, which was published in May 2007. He is also the author of ''The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns'' about the new science of political campaigns."Sasha Issenberg"
''MIT Technology Review" Retrieved on 24 July 2013. He has also written a book on medical tourism. His most recent book is '' The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage''.

References

External links

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Philadelphia Inquirer interview
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