Olivier Knox

Olivier Knox
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Middlebury College Language Schools
Occupationjournalist
Known forchief Washington D.C. correspondent for Sirius XM
former chair of the White House Correspondents' Association

Olivier Knox is a French American journalist who is the chief Washington correspondent for Sirius XM. In addition to his career at Agence France-Presse and Yahoo News, he is most known for chairing the White House Correspondents' Association and for his reboot of the White House Correspondents Dinner into its original format, which saw the elimination of the tradition of having a comedian as the featured speaker and an absence of A-list celebrities at the event.[1][2]

  1. ^ Evans, Garrett (2019-04-10). "White House correspondents' dinner gets a reset". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  2. ^ "History in the making for White House Correspondents Dinner". Roll Call. 28 April 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-22.