Reston swaps CNN for Washington Put up
The next was despatched out from The Washington Post’s nationwide editor Matea Gold, deputy nationwide editor Philip Rucker, senior politics editor Dan Eggen and deputy politics editor for campaigns Sean Sullivan:
We’re excited to announce that Maeve Reston is becoming a member of The Put up as a nationwide political reporter, drawing from her intensive expertise masking 5 presidential campaigns to assist us dominate protection of the 2024 election.
Maeve has distinguished herself as one of many nation’s marquee political reporters over a profession that has spanned greater than twenty years. She involves The Put up from CNN, the place she coated the 2016 and 2020 presidential races, in addition to midterm elections, for each tv and digital audiences. She centered partially on the politics of the western half of america, together with by way of an unique digital video sequence known as MaeveWest. The sequence explored a few of the distinctive challenges going through the area, together with drought and immigration, and the shifting politics of Nevada, Arizona and Colorado.
Earlier than becoming a member of CNN in 2014, Maeve spent seven years as a reporter for the Los Angeles Occasions.
Maeve additionally coated the 2004 presidential race from New Hampshire for the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette, later shifting to Pennsylvania to roam that battleground state and others. Her first reporting job was on the Austin American-Statesman, the place she coated schooling and the Texas legislature.
Maeve acquired her bachelor’s diploma in English from Cornell College and her grasp’s diploma from Dartmouth School, the place her thesis was concerning the generational clashes throughout the households of the decision-makers within the Vietnam Struggle after lots of their kids joined the antiwar motion.
Maeve will stay primarily based in Los Angeles. Please be part of us in welcoming her.
