Philip Rucker has joined CNN as senior vice chairman of editorial technique and information, departing The Washington Submit after 20 years.
Rucker has most just lately been nationwide editor on the Submit, the newest prime journalist to go away the publication. Others who’ve exited just lately embrace Josh Dawsey, who joined The Wall Road Journal, and Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, who joined The Atlantic. Managing editor Matea Gold left for The New York Instances, the place she is now Washington editor.
On the Submit, Rucker additionally has served as deputy nationwide editor, senior Washington correspondent and White Home bureau chief. He joined the Submit in 2005 as an area information reporter. He additionally performed a central position in groups which have gained three Pulitzer Prizes, together with in 2024 for a sequence analyzing the AR-15; in 2022 for protection of the January sixth assault on the Capitol; and in 2018 for protection of Russia’s interference within the 2016 election. He’s the co-author, with Carol Leonnig, of A Very Steady Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America; and the observe up I Alone Can Repair It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Last Yr.
Rucker can be based mostly within the CNN Washington, D.C. bureau. He’ll begin on Feb. 10.
