David Chalian, CNN’s longtime political director, has been promoted to senior VP and Washington, DC bureau chief. The appointment follows the departure of Sam Feist last summer. He has joined C-SPAN as CEO.

David Chalian, a veteran political journalist who has long helped put together CNN’s most important nights of election coverage, has been named the network’s Washington Bureau chief. Chalian will now oversee the network's Washington,

Gerry’s investigation in his previous assignment as India bureau chief into the undermining of democracy by the Modi government and his Hindu nationalist allies was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

The network's political director takes over a role previously held by Sam Feist, who departed earlier this year to take a job at C-SPAN.