Perhaps it'd be a little unfair to compare CNN's John King to Vanna White, even if he's been reduced to running his fingers across a giant screen, zooming in on maps of Iraq or scrolling through America's red and blue states. These big interactive TVs he always has his hands on are THE FUTURE!, and King is on board. "The technology has also helped him solve a problem with which he has occasionally wrestled in his career at CNN: adapting his just-the-facts-ma’am approach to a visual medium. 'Nothing against white guys, but I’m a white guy talking in a box,' he said, stripping his broadcast performance to its essence. 'If all I’m doing is saying, ‘6 percent, 8 percent, 10 percent, 12 percent,’ there’s that glaze-over factor at home. You’ve lost them.'"

Just don't go putting his personal life up on that monitor.

Mr. King, who can spend several rapid-fire minutes off camera recounting the voting history of Montgomery County, Penn., tends to clam up when the subject turns to his personal life. He did volunteer that an earlier marriage ended in divorce, and that he and his first wife have a son, 14, and a daughter, 11. Asked how he and Ms. Bash had gotten together, he said only, “We met at work.” (Ms. Bash declined through a CNN spokeswoman to be interviewed for this article.)

“My work is fair game, and I do it in a very public arena,” Mr. King said. “To try to carve out a little space for your life is important to me.”

That can be tricky. In a sure sign that he has achieved a certain level of celebrity, Mr. King was the subject of a gossip item on Page 6 in The New York Post on Jan. 18. Under the heading “He’s a New Jew,” The Post reported that Mr. King, who was raised Roman Catholic, was converting to Judaism before marrying Ms. Bash.

“Seder was great,” he said by e-mail on Monday, the morning after the second night of Passover. He had spent the weekend with Ms. Bash’s family. [NYT]