Salena Zito

Salena Zito is a Pennsylvania-born American political journalist and author who is a reporter for the Washington Examiner and a contributor to The Washington Post. She was previously a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the New York Post and a CNN contributor.

Other reporters have frequently accused Zito of misrepresenting Republican Party officials as swing voters and of fabricating quotes in her reporting. On at least three occasions, Zito has plagiarized content from other writers, including Wikipedia. Zito's 2025 book about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Butler, debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, and Zito sold the movie rights to Pensé Productions.

Awards In 2024, Zito received the Media Research Center Bulldog Award.

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