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Washington Post Veteran Philip Rucker Joins CNN
Philip Rucker has left his post as national editor of The Washington Post to join CNN in a senior role in Washington, D.C.
He is the latest in a series of departures of prominent journalists from The Washington Post, which has been navigating a downturn in subscriptions and pushback to stances it has recently taken under CEO Will Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos. Other prominent staffers have in recent weeks left to join publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Rucker, who has been a familiar face on TV-news outlets including MSNBC, led a staff of 150 journalists at the Post as its national editor, overseeing coverage of beats that included the White House, Congress, politics, national security, criminal justice, the Supreme Court, U.S. domestic news, health, education, science, race, immigration and more.
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