Alex Burns (journalist)

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Alex Burns
Education Harvard University (AB)
Employer The New York Times
Spouse MJ Lee

Alexander Burns [1] is an American journalist. He is currently the head of news for Politico [2] and previously was national political correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst at CNN. [3]

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Education

Burns attended the Fieldston School [4] and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 2008. [5] He began his career editing the Harvard Political Review and also wrote for a history-themed blog sponsored by American Heritage. [6]

Career

Burns joined the staff of Politico in 2008. He moved to The New York Times in 2015 to cover politics for the Metro desk, before being appointed political correspondent in time for the 2016 presidential election. [7] Burns has also appeared as a guest on Morning Joe . [8] He left the New York Times and returned to POLITICO in the fall of 2022. [9]

Together with fellow New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin, Burns authored the book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future on the last months of Donald Trump's presidency, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol building, which was published in May 2022. [10] [11]

Personal life

He is married to CNN correspondent MJ Lee, whom he met while working at Politico. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Alex Burns, NYT national political correspondent". Politico . April 3, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ "POLITICO's Global Editor-In-Chief John Harris announces newsroom organizational structure". Editor and Publisher. 7 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "Alexander Burns". The New York Times. 2019-02-15. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  4. ↑ Wemple, Erik (1 December 2021). "New York Times announces hiring of former Politico reporter Alex Burns". Washington Post.
  5. ↑ "Career Roundtable with Alex Burns and MJ Lee". The Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Precocious pundit Alexander Burns is off to D.C." Harvard Gazette. 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  7. 1 2 Wemple, Erik. "New York Times announces hiring of former Politico reporter Alex Burns". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  8. ↑ Hains, Tim (March 18, 2016). "NYT's Alex Burns: GOP Establishment Has "Indulged And Validated" Trump For So Long, "It's A Little Tough" To Flip Now". www.realclearpolitics.com. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  9. ↑ Cooke, Melissa (13 September 2022). "Alex Burns joins POLITICO as Associate Editor for Global Politics and Columnist". www.politico.com.
  10. ↑ Mastrangelo, Dominick (2021-11-08). "NYT reporters to publish book on pandemic, Jan. 6". The Hill. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  11. ↑ "The Pitfalls and Repetitions of Political Journalism". The New Yorker. 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  12. ↑ "The Journalistic Pitfalls of the Trump Era". The New Yorker. 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  13. ↑ "Republicans suggested invoking the 25th Amendment after Jan. 6 — but failed to act". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  14. ↑ "'This Will Not Pass' shines light on 2020 election, GOP tensions and Biden's first year". PBS NewsHour. 2022-05-03. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  15. ↑ "This Will Not Pass review: Trump-Biden blockbuster is dire reading for Democrats". the Guardian. 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  16. ↑ "Video Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns on revelations from new book 'This Will Not Pass'". ABC News. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  17. ↑ Evans, Timothy (2022-04-26). "New York Times reporters face blowback for withholding January 6 scoops to "pump up book sales"". Salon. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  18. ↑ Vaillancourt, William (2022-04-22). "NYT Reporters Say They Have 'a Lot More' McCarthy Audio". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2022-05-13.


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