Margaret Talev

Margaret Talev is the Kramer Director of Syracuse University’s Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship, in Washington, DC, and senior contributor at Axios. She appears regularly on CNN, Sirius XM, NPR, BBC News and other outlets.

Talev is a professor of practice at the Newhouse School of Public Communications and an adjunct lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

She has covered or directed coverage of the White House, U.S. elections and Congress, and previously local news and state politics in Florida and California. She is a past president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and the Washington Press Club Foundation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Talev serves on the Board of Visitors for the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park, her alma mater.