Andrew Kaczynski

Andrew Kaczynski is an American journalist and a political reporter for CNN. He became well known in 2011 by posting old video clips of politicians to YouTube. He was hired by BuzzFeed in 2012 and has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN. In October 2016, he announced he was leaving BuzzFeed and joining CNN.

About Andrew Kaczynski in brief

Summary Andrew KaczynskiAndrew Kaczynski is an American journalist and a political reporter for CNN. He became well known in 2011 by posting old video clips of politicians, often of them making statements contrary to their current political positions, to YouTube. He was hired by BuzzFeed in 2012 and has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN. On October 3, 2016, he announced he was leaving BuzzFeed and joining CNN. In January 2017, he reported that Monica Crowley had plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book What The Just Happened. He reported in May 2017 that Sheriff David Clarke had plagiarised portions of his master’s thesis. During the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign, he brought to attention a statement by the chairman of the American Nazi Party in support of Donald Trump’s support of the Nazi Party.

On July 4, he withdrew from the opportunity to join the Donald Trump administration due to other reasons and did not join the Trump administration. He is of Italian, Polish, and Italo-Albanian heritage. He attended Benedictine High School in Cleveland and St. Johns University in Ohio. He enrolled in online courses to meet his degree requirement, but did not graduate. He has worked as an intern for the Republican National Committee, and was an intern in 2011 in the office of Congressman Bob Turner. He also retweeted false reports made by Reddit user Greg Hughes about the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013. He played a role in spreading unsubstantiated misinformation about the identities of the suspected bombers.