Kaitlan Collins is an American journalist working for CNN, and she is currently the chief White House correspondent for the news outlet.
Collins left The Daily Caller to join CNN in 2017, becoming one of the youngest White House correspondents the network has ever hired. She was recently in the news after a back and forth with US President Joe Biden in a press conference.
During the Donald Trump administration, Collins travelled with him to over a dozen countries to cover and break stories. She’s also broken several stories in her coverage of the Trump White House, as well as major staff departures and consequential policy decisions.
Kaitlan Collins has had numerous career achievements, such as getting featured in Forbes 30 Under 30: Media in 2019 and being on the Mediaite list of the 50 Most Influential People in News Media in consecutive years, since 2019 to date.
Top 10 facts about Kaitlan Collins
- Kaitlan Collins was born on 7 April 1992 and is currently 29 years old in 2021.
- She got her elementary education in Prattville, Alabama, and she was the second oldest of four children.
- Collins graduated from the University of Alabama in May 2014 with a Bachelor of arts degree in Political Science and Journalism after changing her mind from studying Chemistry.
- She grew up in an apolitical family, claiming she never heard her parents strongly opining on a political opponent while growing up.
- Earlier during her career, she worked as a freelance writer and blogger.
- Kaitlan Collins is also part of a female fraternity group, the Alpha Phi sorority.
- She is a very private person and keeps details of her personal life away from the media.
- She was once barred from press events for asking Trump a series of questions about Vladimir Putin and Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen.
- At a President Joe Biden press conference, CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins got under his skin with feet sweeping questions.
- Kaitlan Collins is not married and has no kids yet.
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Early life, family, and education
Kaitlan Collins was born on 7 April 1992 to American parents. She grew up in Prattville, Alabama, and she is Caucasian. Collins is the second child, and she has three siblings. Her father’s name is Jeff Collins, who worked as a mortgage banker. We only found a photo of her with her brothers and father. Not much is known of her mother.
Many other details about the Collins family is scarcely known as Kaitlan prefers to keep them private. We found that she attended Prattville High School, where she graduated from in the 2000s, before enrolling at the University of Alabama to study Chemistry.
Kaitlan Collins once revealed her family was apolitical, and their upbringing was such that her parents never went to vote nor spoke strongly about a political issue.
Hence, she wanted to study Chemistry because her older sister was doing the same thing, but that wasn’t really her calling. Collins later switched to journalism, and she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the course (political science and journalism) back in May 2014.
She is part of a female fraternity group, the Alpha Phi sorority. Upon graduating from the university, Collins quickly started as a freelancer. She would write for blogs and even moved to Washington.
She joined the news website The Daily Caller in 2014, and worked as an entertainment reporter. After three years of working with the media house she was promoted to the position of a correspondent.
Career
Kaitlan Collins started her career in journalism as a freelance writer and blogger shortly after her university education.
She had initially wanted to study chemistry like her sister but she opted for journalism instead, and she graduated in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Journalism.
Working as a freelance writer for blogs got her a spot on The Daily Caller, a news website where she worked and an entertainment reporter back in 2014.
After three years working with the news outfit and covering the 2016 presidential campaign, Collins was offered a role as the White House correspondent at The Daily Caller in 2017 and this promotion was the beginning of better things to come in her career. She quickly began covering the Trump administration after assuming her new position.
In 2017, CNN, the multinational news-based television channel known for its dramatic live coverage of breaking news, recruited Kaitlan Collins. She became one of the youngest ever White House correspondents for the media house.
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As a top news outfit correspondent, Kaitlan Collins has made it her prerogative to ask the tough and difficult questions, which sometimes got her blacklisted.
According to Wikipedia, back in 2018, Collins asked Trump a series of questions about Vladimir Putin and Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen while attending a photo op at the oval office. Trump, however, ignored Collins’ questions.
And that afternoon, Kaitlan was not allowed to attend the Trump administration press conference in the White House Rose Garden. Senior White House officials also allegedly told her that her questions were ‘inappropriate for that venue.’
CNN later claimed that it was ‘retaliatory’ to ban Collins, adding that it is ‘not indicative of an open and free press.’
The White House Correspondents Association rallied behind Collins, calling the ban ‘wholly inappropriate, wrong-headed, and weak.’
