Anita Kumar(I)
Anita Kumar serves as POLITICO's first-ever Senior Editor, Standards & Ethics, working across newsrooms to help produce ambitious journalism from inception to publication while focusing on accuracy, fairness, clarity and nonpartisanship.
A longtime reporter, Kumar covered the White House for nine years, reporting on Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama at POLITICO and, before that, for McClatchy's chain of newspapers. She joined POLITCO as White House correspondent and associate editor in 2019, helping organize and guide coverage for the White House team and serving as an in-house expert on the institution of the presidency. She reported on Trump's reelection campaign in 2020, Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016 and Obama's reelection campaign in 2012.
Prior to that, she worked at The Washington Post, writing about Virginia politics, and The Tampa Bay Times, writing about local, state and federal government both in Florida and Washington. She started her career at The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., and worked briefly at The News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.
Kumar has served on the boards of the White House Correspondents' Association, the Regional Reporters Association and the Virginia Capitol Correspondents Association. She has organized training, mentored reporters and served as a recruiter.
A native Virginian, Kumar grew up in Charlottesville and attended the University of Virginia. She appears regularly on television and radio.
A longtime reporter, Kumar covered the White House for nine years, reporting on Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama at POLITICO and, before that, for McClatchy's chain of newspapers. She joined POLITCO as White House correspondent and associate editor in 2019, helping organize and guide coverage for the White House team and serving as an in-house expert on the institution of the presidency. She reported on Trump's reelection campaign in 2020, Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016 and Obama's reelection campaign in 2012.
Prior to that, she worked at The Washington Post, writing about Virginia politics, and The Tampa Bay Times, writing about local, state and federal government both in Florida and Washington. She started her career at The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., and worked briefly at The News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.
Kumar has served on the boards of the White House Correspondents' Association, the Regional Reporters Association and the Virginia Capitol Correspondents Association. She has organized training, mentored reporters and served as a recruiter.
A native Virginian, Kumar grew up in Charlottesville and attended the University of Virginia. She appears regularly on television and radio.
