Kaitlan Collins has been named CNN‘s Chief White House Correspondent, but will also continue to anchor The Source.
Calling her new role “unprecedented,” CNN announced Collins will lead the news net’s reporting on President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration across digital, TV and streaming platforms.
She will also continue with her 9pm spot on The Source with Kaitlan Collins, but will relocate from New York to Washington, D.C. for her White House duties. She landed that role last year, making her one of the most important anchors at CNN in the process.
“Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of the new Trump White House, even as she continues to anchor her key primetime show The Source,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson. “Kaitlan is a political journalist of real depth and tenacity who already boasts an amazing record of scoops and exclusive interviews. I’m excited to see what new heights she scales as she combines this key new posting with her duties as a major CNN anchor.”
Collins was in prolific form in the run-up to the election, scooping several stories. Throughout her career, she’s conducted interviews with the likes of Secretary Hillary Clinton, Vice President-elect JD Vance, attorney Marc Agnifilo, Former Attorney General William Barr, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Trump’s criminal defense attorneys.
She joined CNN in 2017 and has gone on to break stories out of the Biden and first Trump administrations, including major staff departures and policy decisions.
