...and here we have the new primetime news Anchor/Star "It girl" Kaitlan Collins
American journalist who served as the chief White House correspondent for CNN until 2022. She currently hosts CNN This Morning alongside Poppy Harlow. Previously, she was the White House correspondent for the website The Daily Caller.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaitlan_Collins
Early life and education
Kaitlan Collins was born in Prattville, Alabama.[1][4] Her father, Jeff Collins, is a mortgage banker.[5] Collins has described her upbringing as "apolitical," and has stated that she does not recall her parents voting or expressing strong opinions about political candidates.[1]
Collins graduated from Prattville High School and went on to attend the University of Alabama. She initially chose to major in chemistry, like her sister, before majoring in journalism.[1] She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and journalism in May of 2014.[4][1] Collins was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.[4]
In 2018, the group Log Cabin Republicans unearthed some tweets from her time at Alabama in 2011. Collins used the slur fag and expressed that she did not know "if I wanna room with a lesbian." She apologized for the tweets, saying, "When I was in college, I used ignorant language in a few tweets to my friends. It was immature but it doesn’t represent the way I feel at all."[6][7][8]
Career
After graduating from college, Collins moved to Washington, D.C.[3] In June 2014, she was hired by website The Daily Caller as an entertainment reporter. After covering the 2016 presidential election, the Daily Caller named her its White House correspondent in January 2017, and she began covering the Trump administration.[9][3]
While she was still with The Daily Caller, Collins was invited to make several appearances on CNN. At a White House correspondent event in spring 2017, she met network president Jeff Zucker and thanked him for having her on despite the ideological nature of her current employer. Collins was subsequently interviewed and hired to join the White House team at CNN in July 2017.[9][3] She traveled with President Trump to at least half a dozen countries.[9][10]
Collins was involved in a notable incident with the Trump administration on July 25, 2018, when she attended a photo op in the Oval Office as the day's pool reporter. As the event concluded, Collins asked Trump a series of questions about Vladimir Putin and Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen. Trump ignored her questions.[9][11] Collins was subsequently barred from a Trump administration press conference in the White House Rose Garden that afternoon[12] and was told by senior White House officials that such questions were "inappropriate for that venue."[13][14] Trump's press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Collins had "shouted questions and refused to leave,"[13] while Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway said that the action was about "being polite."[15]
CNN FINDS ITS NEW PRIMETIME STAR?
CNN Will Reportedly Offer Kaitlan Collins the 9 p.m. Slot and a New Contract
CNN CEO Chris Licht plans to offer Kaitlan Collins a new contract and the 9 p.m. time slot at the network, Puck News reported on Wednesday.
"Dylan Byers reported the news just hours before Collins is set to host a 90-minute town hall in New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump. It is Trump’s first town hall of the 2024 presidential campaign and his first appearance on the network in years.
“Kaitlan’s offer is not contingent on her performance at tonight’s town hall, but, given the Trump X-factor, those 90 minutes have the potential to modify, accelerate, or stifle the arc of her career,” Byers said. “At the very least, her performance tonight will set the tone for a new Collins era at CNN, which, barring any fuck-ups, will run at least through the 2024 presidential election.”
Before joining CNN in 2017, Collins worked for the conservative Daily Caller, which was founded by Tucker Carlson.
Since becoming network chief in February 2022, Licht has put the kibosh on opinion programming that former boss Jeff Zucker cultivated at the network in former stars such as Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, the latter of whom was fired last month after butting heads with Collins on CNN’s morning show both on air and off it. Licht has sought to move the network toward the center and serve up less partisan fare.
“For Licht, it will also mark the beginning of a formal primetime strategy, rather than the fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants mish-mash of low-rated town halls, specials and talk shows with no consistent star anchor,” Byers added.
“Licht now needs to place his bets and define CNN’s place in the broader 2024 landscape. There’s a lot riding on tonight, and there’s a lot riding on Kaitlan.”
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CNN to offer Don Lemon’s former co-host Kaitlan Collins primetime slot: report
CNN plans to offer former chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins the primetime 9 p.m. timeslot and a new contract, a report said Wednesday.
Collins — a former co-host with Don Lemon and a favorite of CNN CEO Chris Licht — could find herself in the role as soon as next week, according to a report by Puck News.
The report came just hours before Collins was set to moderate a 90-minute town hall event with former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire as Trump seeks the GOP nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
The event, which is expected to be widely watched nationwide, will thrust the impressive 31-year-old CNN “It girl” into the spotlight, according to Puck News.
“Kaitlan’s offer is not contingent on her performance at tonight’s town hall, but, given the Trump X-factor, those 90 minutes have the potential to modify, accelerate, or stifle the arc of her career,” Puck News’ Dylan Byers told Mediaite.
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