Ken Dilanian is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C. Ken Dilanian is intelligence and national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. ^{[2] [1]}

Ken Dilanian graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor's degree in political science and history. ^[2]

Prior to joining NBC News in January 2016, he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times from April 2010 until May 2014. Before that, he had spent three years at USA Today, where he covered foreign policy and Congress. ^[3]

He worked for a decade at the Philadelphia Inquirer , three of them as a Rome-based foreign correspondent making frequent trips to Iraq. ^[3]

A series Ken Dilanian co-wrote on deaths in Philadelphia’s child welfare System won the 2007 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. ^[3]