Philip Rucker

American journalist

Philip Rucker

Occupation| Journalist
Website| https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/philip-rucker/

Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, where he has been working since 2005.

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Career
* 3 Awards
* 4 Bibliography
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Early life and education[edit]

Rucker is a 2002 graduate of the St. Andrew's School in Savannah, Georgia, where he was valedictorian. In 2017, the school gave him its Distinguished Alumni Award.[1] Rucker received a history degree from Yale University in 2006, where he worked for the Yale Daily News as a reporter and editor.[2]

## Career[edit]

He has worked at the Post since 2005. Initially covering a variety of beats, he became a White House correspondent and was promoted to White House bureau chief in 2014.[3] He covered the entire Trump administration for the Post, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[4] He is also a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a regular guest on PBS news shows.[1] Jim Wertz, the Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, called him "one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists."[5]

He is the co-author, with his Post colleague Carol Leonnig, of two best-selling books about the Trump administration.[6][7] The first, A Very Stable Genius. is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second, I Alone Can Fix It, covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath.

## Awards[edit]

* He was part of the Washington Post staff that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.[8]
* He was part of the Washington Post staff that won a 2017 special George Polk Award for "revealing ties between the Trump campaign and Kremlin-connected Russians that gave rise to the investigation into possible collusion during the 2016 election."[9]
* He and his Post colleague Ashley Parker shared the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.[10]

## Bibliography[edit]

* A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America (2020) Penguin Press; ISBN 978-1-9848-7749-9; co-written with Carol Leonnig
* I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year. Engels 2021, ISBN 978-0593300626; co-written with Carol Leonnig

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Savannah's St. Andrew's School names Rucker as distinguished alumni". Savannah Morning News. October 18, 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
2. ^ "Philip Rucker". Washington Week. August 3, 2016. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
3. ^ Byers, Dylan (January 29, 2014). "Phil Rucker promoted at Washington Post". Politico.
4. ^ "Philip Rucker". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
5. ^ Wertz, Jim (November 9, 2017). "There's Always a Next Thing". Erie Reader. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
6. ^ Milliot, Jim (January 31, 2020). "'Stable Genius' Tops 'American Dirt' in Sales". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
7. ^ "NYTimes Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction". Madison Public Library. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
8. ^ "2018 Pulitzer Prizes: Journalism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
9. ^ "2017 George Polk Award Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
10. ^ "Reporting on the Presidency 2017". Gerald R. Ford Foundation. Retrieved 28 August 2021.

## External links[edit]

* Appearances on C-SPAN

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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National (1942-1947)

1942–1947|

* Louis Stark (1942)
* Dewey L. Fleming (1944)
* James Reston (1945)
* Edward A. Harris (1946)
* Edward T. Folliard (1947)

As Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1948-present)

1948–1949|

* Bert Andrews (1948 shared)
* Nat S. Finney (1948 shared)
* C. P. Trussell (1949)

1950–1959|

* Edwin O. Guthman (1950)
* Anthony Leviero (1952)
* Don Whitehead (1953)
* Richard Wilson (1954)
* Anthony Lewis (1955)
* Charles L. Bartlett (1956)
* James Reston (1957)
* Clark Mollenhoff (1958 shared)
* Relman Morin (1958 shared)
* Howard Van Smith (1959)

1960–1969|

* Vance Trimble (1960)
* Edward R. Cony (1961)
* Nathan G. Caldwell (1962 shared)
* Gene S. Graham (1962 shared)
* Anthony Lewis (1963)
* Merriman Smith (1964)
* Louis M. Kohlmeier Jr. (1965)
* Haynes Johnson (1966)
* Stanley Penn (1967 shared)
* Monroe Karmin (1967 shared)
* Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz (1968 shared)
* Howard James (1968 shared)
* Robert Cahn (1969)

1970–1979|

* William J. Eaton (1970)
* Lucinda Franks  (1971)
* Jack Anderson (1972)
* Robert Boyd (1973 shared)
* Clark Hoyt (1973 shared)
* Jack White (1974 shared)
* James R. Polk (1974 shared)
* Donald L. Barlett (1975 shared)
* James B. Steele (1975 shared)
* James V. Risser (1976)
* Walter Mears (1977)
* Gaylord D. Shaw (1978)
* James V. Risser (1979)

1980–1989|

* Bette Swenson Orsini (1980 shared)
* Charles Stafford (1980 shared)
* John M. Crewdson (1981)
* Rick Atkinson (1982)
* The Boston Globe (1983)
* John Noble Wilford (1984)
* Thomas J. Knudson (1985)
* Craig Flournoy (1986 shared)
* George Rodrigues (1986 shared)
* Arthur Howe (1986 shared)
* Staff of The Miami Herald (1987 shared)
* Staff of The New York Times (1987 shared)
* Tim Weiner (1988)
* Donald L. Barlett (1989 shared)
* James B. Steele (1989 shared)

1990–1999|

* Ross Anderson (1990 shared)
* Bill Dietrich (1990 shared)
* Mary Ann Gwinn (1990 shared)
* Eric Nalder (1990 shared)
* Marjie Lundstrom (1991 shared)
* Rochelle Sharpe (1991 shared)
* Gannett News Service (1991 shared)
* Jeff Taylor (1992 shared)
* Mike McGraw (1992 shared)
* The Kansas City Star (1992 shared)
* David Maraniss (1993)
* Eileen Welsome (1994)
* Tony Horwitz (1995)
* Alix M. Freedman (1996)
* Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1997)
* Russell Carollo (1998 shared)
* Jeff Nesmith (1998 shared)
* Staff of The New York Times (1999)
* Jeff Gerth (1999)

2000–2009|

* Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2000)
* Staff of The New York Times (2001)
* Staff of The Washington Post (2002)
* Alan Miller (2003 shared)
* Kevin Sack (2003 shared)
* Staff of Los Angeles Times (2004 shared)
* Walt Bogdanich (2005)
* James Risen (2006 shared)
* Eric Lichtblau (2006 shared)
* Staff of The San Diego Union-Tribune (2006 shared)
* Staff of Copley News Service (2006 shared)
* Marcus Stern (2006 shared)
* Jerry Kammer (2006 shared)
* Charlie Savage (2007)
* Jo Becker (2008 shared)
* Barton Gellman (2008 shared)
* Staff of St. Petersburg Times (2009)

2010-2020|

* Matt Richtel (2010 shared)
* Staff of The New York Times  (2010 shared)
* Jesse Eisinger (2011 shared)
* Jake Bernstein (2011 shared)
* David Wood (2012)
* Lisa Song (2013 shared)
* Elizabeth McGowan (2013 shared)
* David Hasemyer (2013 shared)
* David Philipps (2014)
* Carol D. Leonnig (2015)
* Staff of The Washington Post (2016)
* David Fahrenthold (2017)
* Staff of The New York Times (2018 shared)
* Staff of The Washington Post (2018 shared)
* Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2019)
* Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times, T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faurtechi of ProPublica (2020 shared)

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