Alex Burns (journalist)
Alexander Burns is an American journalist. He is a national political correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst at CNN.
Burns received a B.A. from Harvard College. He began his career editing the Harvard Political Review before joining Politico in 2008. He moved to The New York Times in 2015 to cover politics for the Metro desk, before being appointed political correspondent in time for the 2016 presidential election.
He is married to CNN correspondent MJ Lee, whom he met while working at Politico.
