3 weeks ago
Garrett Haake has been named NBC News‘ main White House correspondent, filling a cardinal domiciled for sum of nan Donald Trump administration.
He will win Peter Alexander, who precocious near nan web to service arsenic anchor for MS NOW.
In a memo to staffers, Chloe Arensberg, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief, wrote, “Garrett has been an basal sound successful our White House coverage, bringing crisp reporting, heavy sourcing and an charismatic beingness to immoderate of nan astir consequential stories of our time. That committedness was connected afloat show during nan White House Correspondents’ dinner, erstwhile he ran astatine afloat velocity successful his tux from nan Washington Hilton to nan White House briefing room to guarantee NBC could inquire nan President a question—a infinitesimal that reflects his relentless thrust to get nan communicative erstwhile it matters most.”
In his role, Haake will lead nan network’s White House coverage, having been named elder analogous connected nan squad past year. Before that, he was elder Capitol Hill correspondent, including reporting connected January 6 and nan turbulent speaker battles of Kevin McCarthy. Haake caught up pinch McCarthy to get remark from him arsenic he near nan House level aft being ousted from that role. Haake besides covered each 3 campaigns of Trump, successful 2016 for WUSA-TV and successful 2020 and 2024 for NBC News. He besides covered nan wide shooting calamity successful Uvalde, TX, and Hurricane Florence successful North Carolina, among different assignments.
Haake started astatine NBC News successful 2007 arsenic a table assistant, and past worked successful section news successful Kansas City and Washington, D.C., earlier returning to nan web successful 2017.
