Journalist Mark Halperin, who was accused of sexually assaulting several women, is trying to get back into the news business.
Halperin began tweeting April 10 for the first time in a year-and-a-half and has launched a blog to weigh in on political news of the day, “Wide World of News” — a play on the 1970s weekend show “Wide World of Sports” aired by ABC, where Halperin was political director for a decade.
Halperin was a prominent, multi-perch pundit, co-authoring the dishy Game Change presidential race book and appearing regularly on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Those gigs all went away, however, after accusations emerged in October 2017 of sexual misconduct when he was employed by ABC News.
Halperin went silent until earlier this month, when he apologized for his past behavior. Halperin said that since his firings he has had hundreds of conversations with women who have been harassed “to really understand why it’s so painful.”
“I know that I’ve grown in my understanding of all this, I know I need to continue to grow, I wasn’t a perfect person when I made these mistakes, I’m not a perfect person now, I’m happy to be judged by perfect people,” he told Sirius XM.
