CNN high brass is contemplating naming primetime anchor Kaitlan Collins to the function of chief White Home correspondent, because it grapples with how one can cowl the incoming Trump administration, in keeping with a report.
Collins, who hosts “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” weekdays at 9 pm, would relocate together with her New York-based present to Washington, D.C., no less than a part of the time, Semafor reported Sunday.
Though CNN has been adamant that it doesn’t need to return to its frenzied 24-hour protection of Donald Trump when he returns to the White Home in January, it’s contemplating shifting its lineup to higher cowl the brand new administration.
The transfer, which has not but been finalized, is at present being discused by CNN CEO Mark Thompson and his lieutentants, within the hope that it could permit Collins to completely faucet into her community of sourcing inside Trump’s White Home.
CNN didn’t return requests for remark.
The reporter lined Trump’s first administration for CNN, in addition to for her earlier employer, conservative information website the Day by day Caller.
In latest weeks, Collins has been reporting from West Palm Seashore, Fla., close to the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago compound, internet hosting her present from a arrange close by and breaking information in regards to the president’s transition efforts.
The 32-year-old star has climbed the ranks on the struggling information community, shifting from the function of White Home reporter to co-host of “CNN This Morning,” the ill-fated morning present co-hosted by Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow, each of whom have been axed.
Collins managed to sidestep that catastrophe and discover a plum gig, anchoring the community’s vital 9 pm-hour, and cementing herself as CNN’s “It girl.”
Even together with her Trump connections, Collins might discover it exhausting to stroll a tightrope at CNN, which has grappled with how one can cowl the incoming president.
Thompson stated in an inside assembly with staffers earlier this month that he didn’t need the community to default to leaning into an excessive amount of anti-Trump protection forward of one other 4 years of Trump in energy, the Standing publication first reported.
He additionally pressured that there could be a plethora of vital tales exterior of the D.C. bubble that shouldn’t be pushed apart and that the community ought to strike a steadiness.
