Philip Rucker | |
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Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. Since January, 2025, he has been CNN Senior Vice President, Editorial Strategy and News. Prior to 2025, he was the National Editor atThe Washington Post.
Rucker is a 2002 graduate of theSt. Andrew's School inSavannah,Georgia, where he was valedictorian. In 2017, the school gave him its Distinguished Alumni Award.[1] Rucker received a history degree fromYale University in 2006, where he worked for theYale Daily News as a reporter and editor.[2]
On Jan 21, 2025, CNN announced, “Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Philip Rucker has joined CNN as SVP of Editorial Strategy and News.”
He had worked at thePost since 2005. Initially covering a variety of beats, he became a White House correspondent and later served as the White House bureau chief from 2014 to 2023.[3] In 2023, he was promoted to national editor.[4] He covered the entireTrump administration for thePost, as well asTrump's 2016 presidential campaign andMitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[5] He is also a political analyst forNBC News andMSNBC and a regular guest onPBS news shows.[1] Jim Wertz, the chairman of theErie County Democratic Party, called him "one ofWashington, D.C.'s most respected journalists."[6]
He is the co-author, with hisPost colleagueCarol Leonnig, of two best-selling books about the Trump administration.[7][8] The first,A Very Stable Genius. is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second,I Alone Can Fix It, covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath.
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