New White House Team

Peter Baker, our chief White House correspondent, has covered the last five presidents, going back to Bill Clinton in 1996, when he started on the White House beat at The Washington Post. During the Biden administration, Peter will focus on the presidency, foreign policy and the narrative accounts that have informed his coverage of past presidents. Peter, who joined The Times in 2008, had a four-year tour as Moscow co-bureau chief for The Post, when he covered the early months of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a stint as Jerusalem bureau chief for The Times that was cut short to return home to cover President Trump. He is the author or co-author of six books, most recently “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III,” with his wife, Susan Glasser. The two are now working on a book about the Trump presidency.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs, our former Department of Homeland Security correspondent, joined The Times in 2019 and soon began breaking stories on immigration enforcement, the detention of migrants and border wall construction. Zolan’s vivid reporting took readers from migrant encampments in Mexico to a hospital ravaged by hurricanes in the Virgin Islands to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. He’ll focus on domestic terrorism and a range of domestic and international issues in covering the Biden White House. Zolan previously covered criminal justice for The Wall Street Journal.

Annie Karni, a White House correspondent for the past three years, reported extensively on the Trump campaign, the Republican National Convention and Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and recovery. She’ll focus on domestic policy and politics in the Biden White House. She has chronicled Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, his ever-changing moods and abrupt policy changes, and wrote a memorable account of his former doctor’s campaign for Congress. Annie traveled to Turkey with former Vice President Mike Pence and covered Mr. Trump’s trips to Tokyo and London. Previously she covered the White House and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign for Politico. Before that she spent a decade covering City Hall and local politics for The New York Post, The New York Daily News and The New York Sun.

Katie Rogers, a White House correspondent since 2017, has written extensively about the Trump administration’s cultural impact on Washington and the idiosyncratic behavior of the former president and first lady. She’ll focus on life inside the Biden administration, domestic policy and other issues. Katie accompanied Melania Trump on her only solo trip, to Africa, and while traveling with the former president and vice president filed dispatches from a sumo match in Tokyo, the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki and Mr. Pence’s audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Her exclusive reporting with a colleague, Ken Vogel, on sexual harassment in Congress led to the resignation of Patrick Meehan, a Republican congressman who used federal funds to settle a harassment suit.

David Sanger, a national security correspondent, is making a return engagement to the White House beat. For six years he covered the Clinton presidency and after that the George W. Bush administration. He’ll focus on national security issues facing the new president, including arms control and cybersecurity. David has been at The Times for 38 years, and has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. He is the author of two Times best sellers: “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,” published in 2009, and “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” published in 2012. His newest book, “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age,” published in 2018, is about cyberconflict and how it is changing the nature of global power.

Michael Shear, a reporter in Washington for almost three decades, has spent the last 12 years covering the Obama and Trump presidencies. In this administration he’ll focus on domestic policy, particularly immigration. The co-author of “Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration,” Mike has more than a decade of experience covering the Washington battles over the nation’s borders. In 2020 he also helped lead a half-dozen investigations into the former president’s faltering Covid response. Before coming to The Times in 2010, Mike spent eighteen years writing about local, state and national politics at The Washington Post, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. He was a member of the staff at The San Jose Mercury News that won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1989 earthquake.

Jim Tankersley, an economic correspondent, joined the Washington bureau from Vox in 2017 to cover taxes and economic policy, starting just as the Trump tax cuts began racing through Congress. During the Biden administration he’ll continue to focus on economic policy, most immediately the Covid relief package. In the last administration, Jim covered the Trump trade war, the pandemic recession and its aftermath, stimulus negotiations and the presidential candidates’ policy plans. He also wrote articles exposing sexism, racism and harassment in the economics profession and illustrated how the Trump tax cuts did not pay for themselves. Jim has also worked for The Oregonian, The Toledo Blade, The Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post. He is the author of “The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class,” published in 2020.