Kaitlan Collins

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Kaitlan Collins, an American journalist, is a reporter.

She is a White House reporter for CNN.

Collins was formerly the White House Correspondent for The Daily Caller.

Early life

Kaitlan Collins was born in Alabama. Jeff Collins, her father, is a mortgage lender. Collins has described her upbringing as "apolitical" and has said that she does not recall her parents' votes or expressing strong opinions against political candidates.

Collins graduated from Prattville High School and moved on to the University of Alabama. She started by majoring in chemistry, like her sister's, before deciding on journalism. In May 2014, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and journalism. Collins was a member of Alpha Phi sorority.

Log Cabin Republicans discovered some tweets from her time in 2011 in Alabama. Collins said she didn't know "if I want a room with a lesbian" when she spoke on the slur fag. "I'm sorry for the tweets," she said in a few tweets to my friends." It was immature, but it doesn't represent the way I feel at all."

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Career

Collins then migrated to Washington, D.C., after graduating from college. She was first hired by The Daily Caller as an entertainment reporter in June 2014. The Daily Caller appointed its White House correspondent in January 2017 after covering the 2016 presidential election, and she began covering the Trump administration.

Collins was invited to make several appearances on CNN while she was still with The Daily Caller. She thanked network president Jeff Zucker for taking her on despite the ideological nuances of her new employer at a White House correspondent conference in spring 2017. Collins was then interviewed and hired to join the White House staff at CNN in July 2017. She travelled with President Trump to at least half a dozen countries.

Collins attended a photo op in the Oval Office on Wednesday, July 25, 2018. He was the day's pool reporter. Collins asked Trump a string of questions about Vladimir Putin and Trump's former counsel Michael Cohen as the evening came to an end. Trump dismissed her questions. Collins was then refused entry to a Trump administration press conference in the White House Rose Garden that afternoon, and senior White House officials advised that such inquiries were "inappropriate for that location." Collins had "shouted questions and refused to leave," according to Trump's press secretary Sarah Sanders, though Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway said it was about "being courteous." Bill Shine, Trump's deputy chief of communications, has rebuffled the White House's decision to prohibit her from attending the event, but "declined to notify reporters what word he would use to describe the White House's decision to refuse to prohibit her from attending the conference." The Collins' ban, according to CNN, was "retaliatory" and "not indicative of an open and free press." The ban, according to the White House Correspondents Union, is "completely ineffective, wrong-headed, and weak." In a statement by Fox News president Jay Wallace, his group "stood" in strong sympathy with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press.

Collins was named as one of Crain's Top Watch in Television News in January 2019. In 2019, she was also selected as one of Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30: Media. She was selected as one of Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media 2019 in December.

Collins confronted Trump about his assertion of absolute authority to enforce social distancing restrictions relating to the infectious coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in April 2020. At a White House press conference later this month, she was asked by a White House official to move her front-row seat in the White House's press room to a different network's reporter seated in the back. Both Collins and the other reporter refused to comply with the request. The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) had previously sponsored the briefing room's socially distant seating scheme, which had been agreed to by White House officials the previous month. Collins' refusal to comply with the White House's order prompted the White House official to warn that the Secret Service might be summoned, a change that did not take place.

Collins made the news again in November 2020 after White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany declined to call Collins, saying, "I don't call activists."

Collins was the CNN White House correspondent for a large part of the written and televised live coverage of the 2020 presidential election in the United States.

Collins was promoted to chief White House correspondent for the new Biden administration on January 11, 2021. She was one of the youngest chief White House correspondents in CNN's history and one of the youngest chief correspondents for a major media network at 28 years old.

Joe Biden, 20,21, a reporter at a Geneva conference with Vladimir Putin, questioned Collins' assertion that Putin will change his behavior after he denies cyber attacks and persecution of political protesters, as he continues to deny cyber attacks and persecution of political opposition. President Biden said this was a mischaracterization of his remarks, and that if the rest of the world responded and reduced Russia's world standing, Putin's behavior would change. President Biden apologised shortly after the exchange, before boarding Air Force One, by walking over to a group of reporters on the tarmac and said he owes Collins "an apology."

Collins will co-anchor a new refreshed CNN morning show with Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow later this year. She will not run for the White House. CNN This Morning announced that the morning show would be named on October 12, 2022.

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