CNN promotes White Home correspondents Mattingly and Lee

Phil Mattingly has been promoted to Chief White Home Correspondent. Mattingly beforehand served as senior White Home correspondent protecting the Biden administration the place he reported in depth on the coverage and personnel driving the administration’s first two years in workplace.

Previous to shifting to the White Home beat in January 2021, Mattingly was a congressional correspondent. He was additionally a part of the workforce that gained the Radio & Tv Correspondents Affiliation David Bloom Award for protection of the January 6^th Assault on the US Capitol, the place Mattingly was primarily based on that day.

Earlier than becoming a member of CNN, Mattingly labored at BloombergNews and Tv in Washington, D.C. Mattingly graduated from the Ohio State College in 2006, the place he was a scholar varsity athlete. He obtained his Grasp’s Diploma in journalism from Boston College in 2008

MJ Lee has been promoted to Senior White Home Correspondent.

Lee started protecting the White Home for CNN in 2021. She has damaged information on a number of the Biden administration’s most consequential coverage selections, together with across the nationwide child system scarcity, the White Home’s scholar mortgage debt forgiveness plan and public well being emergencies like monkeypox and COVID.

Lee was beforehand primarily based in CNN’s New York bureau and lined the 2020 presidential election as a political correspondent for the community, specializing in Elizabeth Warren’s marketing campaign throughout the primaries earlier than reporting on Biden’s basic election marketing campaign and the transition.

Earlier than becoming a member of CNN in 2015, Lee was a finance and politics reporter at Politico. She was born in South Korea and grew up in Hong Kong, and has a bachelor’s diploma in authorities and Chinese language from Georgetown College. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Affiliation and is presently primarily based in Washington, DC, the place she lives along with her husband Alex, daughter Penelope and canine Bandit.