Annie Karni

Annie Karni is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. She is a contributor on MSNBC.

Karni was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Barbara S. Karni and Edi Karni. She attended the Park School of Baltimore before receiving a B.A. in English from Haverford College in 2004.

Karni began her career as a reporter at The New York Sun in 2005 where she stayed until she moved to The New York Post in 2008. Karni spent a year writing for Crain's before she was appointed political reporter for the New York Daily News. In total, at the New York tabloids, she spent a decade covering the City Hall and local news.

She first entered the national sphere when she joined Politico as a politics reporter in 2015. Karni joined The New York Times as a White House correspondent in 2018 after the departure of Julie Hirschfeld Davis, who had changed beat to report on Congress. She has appeared on PBS' Washington Week as a political analyst.

Karni married Ted Mann, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, in 2015.