POLITICO names Noah Bierman White House editor

Announcement from Managing Editor Anita Kumar, Executive Editor Joe Schatz, Head of News Alex Burns, and POLITICO Global Editor-in-Chief John Harris:

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We’re thrilled to announce that Noah Bierman will lead POLITICO’s White House team, charged with delivering our audience the most penetrating and urgent coverage of Donald Trump’s second term.

Owning the story of the Trump presidency — a story that's already begun, at a breakneck pace, over the past two weeks — is the central job of our newsroom over the coming year. The White House team is core to this effort, and as White House editor, Noah will ensure our team is driving the conversation in Washington with fresh reporting and distinctive analysis as we narrate the power struggles and characters in and around the West Wing and Mar-a-Lago, and the policymaking and governing implications flowing from the Trump agenda.

Noah has a deep understanding of the way Washington works after nearly a dozen years here for the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. At the Times, he covered all four years of the Trump White House and Kamala Harris’ vice presidency and candidacy. At the Globe, he chronicled Elizabeth Warren’s rise and Scott Brown’s business dealings. He has been part of two teams that won the Everett McKinley Dirksen award for distinguished reporting of Congress — in 2023, for coverage of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and in 2013, for an ambitious project exploring the roots of Washington paralysis.

Noah impressed us with his ideas on how to cover a second Trump White House, from how to own reporting on Trump’s retribution campaign and the installation of loyalists to tracking both his promises and particular projects.

He is eager to work closely with journalists across the newsroom, notably on the Congress team to explore Trump’s relationship to Capitol Hill; policy teams to provide our audience with indispensable coverage of the intersection of policy and politics; and state teams in New York, New Jersey and California to explore how ambitious politicians will use the courts to push back on Trump and about harnessing anti-Trump energy. He will help design the next chapter of West Wing Playbook with authors who are able to get inside the White House, and partner with the larger Playbook team to amplify our White House coverage.

A graduate of Duke University, Noah started his career as an education reporter at the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota. He reported on government, politics, crime and education for the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. He reported on the Bush-Gore recount, deadly anthrax attacks, Guantanamo Bay and the fight over Terri Schiavo’s life.

Noah and his wife, an editor at the New York Times, have two children.

He will begin his new role in January before Inauguration Day but you’ll see him in Rosslyn in the coming weeks. Please join us in welcoming Noah to POLITICO.