Brian Stelter

Brian Patrick Stelter (born September 3, 1985) is an American former TV news anchor who was the chief media correspondent for CNN and host of the CNN program Reliable Sources. Stelter is also a former media reporter for The New York Times and editor of TVNewser.

Stelter was born on September 3, 1985, in Damascus, Maryland, the son of Donna and Mark Stelter. He attended Damascus High School, graduating in 2003, followed by Towson University where he served as editor-in-chief of The Towerlight from 2005 to 2007. While still a student, he created TVNewser, a blog about television and cable news which he later sold to Mediabistro and became a part of the Adweek blog network.

After graduating from college in May 2007, Stelter joined The New York Times as a media reporter in July of that year, aged 22.

In November 2013, he became the new host of CNN's Reliable Sources and also chief media correspondent.

On August 18, 2022, CNN canceled Reliable Sources. Stelter is set to depart the network after its final episode on August 21.

Stelter was raised Methodist, and is non-religious. Stelter dated CNBC anchor Nicole Lapin in 2011. He stated he had to inform his editor of the relationship, and he agreed not to cover CNBC while they were dating.

On February 22, 2014, he married Jamie Shupak, a traffic anchor for NY1. The couple married in a Jewish ceremony, and plan to raise their children in Shupak's Jewish faith. Together, they had a daughter, born in May 2017, and a son, born in August 2019. They live in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

• Top of the Morning (2013)
• Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (2020)