Mara Liasson

Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent and FOX News panelist, will be speaking on September 10, 2020 at 6:00 PM via Zoom video. This event is presented in partnership with The McConnell Foundation and the Women's Fund of the Shasta Regional Community Foundation, and sponsored by Jefferson Public Radio.

Ms. Liasson's reports can be heard regularly on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” where she provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC—focusing on the White House and Congress—and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway. Ms. Liasson's work can also be seen on FOX News Sunday, where she has been a frequent panelist since she joined FOX News in 1997.

Each election year, Liasson provides key coverage of the candidates and issues in both presidential and congressional races. During her tenure, she has covered six presidential elections—from 1992 to 2012. Prior to her current assignment, Liasson was NPR’s White House correspondent for all eight years of the Clinton administration. She has won the White House Correspondent Association’s Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage in 1994, 1995, and again in 1997. From 1989 to 1992, Liasson was NPR’s congressional correspondent.  

Liasson joined NPR in 1985 as a general assignment reporter and newscaster. From September 1988 to June 1989, she took a leave of absence from NPR to attend Columbia University in New York as a recipient of a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in economics and business journalism.  

Prior to joining NPR, Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco. She was also managing editor and anchor of California Edition, a California public radio nightly news program, as well as a print journalist for The Vineyard Gazette in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.  

Liasson is a graduate of Brown University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in American history. 

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