Damian Paletta | |
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Alma mater | Boston College, University of Missouri |
Occupation(s) | Economics Editor, Journalist |
Years active | 2002-present |
Employer | The Washington Post |
Damian Paletta is an American journalist who is currently the economics editor for The Washington Post.[1][2] He was previously a White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Paletta received a B.A. from Boston College in 1999. He completed a M.S. in Journalism at the University of Missouri in 2002.
Paletta started at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter covering the fall-out from the 2008 financial crisis.[3] In 2011, Paletta won the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award and the Sigma Delta Chi award for Washington correspondence.[4]
After the 2016 presidential election, Paletta was named a White House correspondent covering the new Trump administration for The Journal,[5] until he joined The Post in 2017 again as a White House reporter but this time focusing on economic policy.[6]
Paletta was appointed senior economics correspondent before being named economics editor in 2019.[7] He has appeared on WNYC, C-SPAN and MSNBC.[8][9][10][11]