Damian Paletta

Damian Paletta is an American journalist who is currently the economics editor for The Washington Post. He was previously a White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Education
Paletta received a B.A. from Boston College in 1999. He completed a M.S. in journalism at the University of Missouri in 2002.

Career
Paletta started at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter covering the fall-out from the 2008 financial crisis. In 2011, Paletta won the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award and the Sigma Delta Chi award for Washington correspondence.

After the 2016 presidential election, Paletta was named a White House correspondent covering the new Trump administration for The Journal, until he joined The Post in 2017 again as a White House reporter but this time focusing on economic policy.

Paletta was appointed senior economics correspondent before being named economics editor in 2019. He has appeared on WNYC, C-SPAN and MSNBC.