Rachel Smolkin is an American journalist who works as the Vice President and Executive Editor of CNN Politics for CNN where she oversees all of CNN's political coverage.

Biography

Smolkin is the daughter of Mitchell T. and Laura B. Smolkin. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and is a graduate of the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

. After school she worked as a journalist for the ''

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''. She then worked as an editor at

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; managing editor of

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magazine; and the managing editor at

Politico ''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and intern ...

. In August 2014, she was hired as the Executive Editor of CNN Politics where she built their digital team which consists of over 50 reporters, editors and social producers including

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, and

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Personal life

Smolkin lives in

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with her husband and two children.

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