About me
Zolan Kanno-Youngs is a White House Correspondent for The New York Times. He is on a team of reporters covering President Trump and his agenda. While he covers domestic and foreign policy broadly, his work focuses on immigration, homeland security, race and inequality. Based in the Washington bureau, Zolan has reported from more than two dozen countries. He is also a CNN political analyst.
Zolan joined The Times in 2019 to cover the Department of Homeland Security, breaking stories on the detention of migrants, immigration enforcement, the Secret Service, protests and the Trump administration’s response to national emergencies. He then joined the White House team in 2021, covering President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, their domestic and foreign policy agendas and candidacies in the 2024 election.
Zolan contributed to the Times’s breaking news coverage of the January 6th attack on the Capitol that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. In 2022, he was also included on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list. In 2026, his work covering President Trump was included in a package that won the George Polk award for national reporting.
Zolan previously covered criminal justice and the New York Police Department for The Wall Street Journal. During his time at Northeastern University, he worked for the Boston Globe and the Cape Times in Cape Town, South Africa. He is proud to be from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
