Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Zolan Kanno-Youngs is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C., who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. He was previously a criminal justice reporter for The Wall Street Journal.^[1]

Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Northeastern University
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	2012–present
Employer	The New York Times

Early life and education

Raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kanno-Youngs attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He graduated from Northeastern University in 2016.^[2]

Career

Kanno-Youngs started his career as an intern and sports reporter at several outlets in 2012 including The Boston Globe and USA Today. He became a reporter covering law enforcement in the New York area for The Wall Street Journal in 2015.

Kanno-Youngs covered the Department of Homeland Security for The New York Times from February 2019 until October 2022, as one of the newspaper's lead writers on immigration at the U.S. southern border with Mexico and the Trump administration.^[1][3] He was appointed White House correspondent in March 2021.^[1]He has made appearances on MSNBC and CTV News.^[4][5][6]