Philip Rucker

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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 at The Washington Post.

Early life and education

Rucker is a 2002 graduate of the St. Andrew's School in Savannah, Georgia, where he was valedictorian. In 2017, the school gave him its Distinguished Alumni Award.[1] Rucker received a history degree from Yale University in 2006, where he worked for the Yale Daily News as a reporter and editor.[2]

Career

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 the Post 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 entire Trump administration for the Post, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[5] He is also a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a regular guest on PBS news shows.[1] Jim Wertz, the chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, called him "one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists."[6]

He is the co-author, with his Post colleague Carol 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.

Awards

Bibliography

  • A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America (2020) Penguin Press; ISBN 978-1-9848-7749-9; co-written with Carol Leonnig
  • I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year. Engels 2021, ISBN 978-0593300626; co-written with Carol Leonnig

References

  1. ^ a b "Savannah's St. Andrew's School names Rucker as distinguished alumni". Savannah Morning News. October 18, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "Philip Rucker". Washington Week. August 3, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Byers, Dylan (January 29, 2014). "Phil Rucker promoted at Washington Post". Politico.
  4. ^ "Phil Rucker named National Editor of The Washington Post". Washington Post. July 26, 2023.
  5. ^ "Philip Rucker". Washington Post. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  6. ^ Wertz, Jim (November 9, 2017). "There's Always a Next Thing". Erie Reader. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
  7. ^ Milliot, Jim (January 31, 2020). "'Stable Genius' Tops 'American Dirt' in Sales". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  8. ^ "NYTimes Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction". Madison Public Library. June 8, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  9. ^ "2018 Pulitzer Prizes: Journalism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  10. ^ "2017 George Polk Award Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  11. ^ "Reporting on the Presidency 2017". Gerald R. Ford Foundation. June 4, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2021.


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