Margaret Talev
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Margaret Talev is the managing editor for politics at Axios and a CNN political analyst.
She joined Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2023 as the Kramer director of the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, a joint effort of the Newhouse School and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is based in Washington, D.C.
Talev joined Syracuse after a 30-year career covering American politics and the White House. A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Talev served as senior White House correspondent for Bloomberg News and McClatchy Newspapers, where she won the Scripps Howard Raymond Clapper Memorial Award as a part of a team that exposed the politicization of the Justice Department.
As a White House correspondent, she covered the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential campaigns, Barack Obama's two terms in the White House, and Congress.
She has held positions at the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, and Tampa Tribune. She is a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and the Washington Press Club Foundation, and has taught courses at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
