Jane Coaston, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Reihan Salam Join CNN and ‘Chris Wallace Show’

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Jane Coaston, Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Reihan Salam have joined CNN as on-air contributors. All three will be panelists on CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show and will appear on the network in stories related to politics.

Coaston is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times with a special interest in American conservatism. Coaston was previously the host of the podcast “The Argument”. Prior to joining The New York Times, Coaston was a senior politics reporter at Vox. 

Garcia-Navarro works at The New York Times Magazine. Based in Washington, she’s a former NPR host. Garcia-Navarro was previously an international correspondent based in the Middle East and Latin America. 

Salam joins CNN as on-air political commentator. He’s the president of the Manhattan Institute, a research and advocacy organization. Based in New York, Salam is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a contributing editor at National Affairs and National Review. He previously worked for The New York Times op-ed page and NBC News. 

The Chris Wallace Show airs Saturdays at 10 a.m. ET. 

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.