Rachel Treisman
Rachel Treisman (she/her) is a writer and editor for the Morning Edition live blog, which she helped launch in early 2021.
Treisman has worn many digital hats since arriving at NPR as a National Desk intern in 2019. She's written hundreds of breaking news and feature stories, which are often among NPR's most-read pieces of the day.
She writes multiple stories a day, covering a wide range of topics both global and domestic, including politics, science, health, education, culture and consumer safety. She's also reported for the hourly newscast, curated radio content for the NPR One app, contributed to the daily and coronavirus newsletters, live-blogged 2020 election events and spent the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic tracking every state's restrictions and reopenings.
Treisman previously covered business at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and evaluated the credibility of digital news sites for the startup NewsGuard Technologies, which aims to fight misinformation and promote media literacy. She is a graduate of Yale University, where she studied American history and served as editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.
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The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past. -
Blasts of Arctic air are poised to bring below-average temperatures to much of the central and eastern U.S. throughout the first half of January. Here's what to expect and how to prepare. -
After he's sworn in, Rep.-elect Tom Barrett of Michigan will work in the Capitol office his great-grandfather once used. Rep. Louis Rabaut died in 1961, two decades before Barrett was born. -
Earhart, her navigator and their plane disappeared during their attempted 1937 circumnavigation of the globe. A deep sea exploration company thought it might have solved the mystery, but it lives on. -
After Timothée Chalamet showed up at his own celebrity lookalike contest, similar events have popped up in cities across and beyond the U.S. Here's a look at the winners — and what's behind the trend. -
Former President Donald Trump says if reelected, he will invoke a centuries-old law to expedite the removal of undocumented immigrants. Can he? Here's what to know about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. -
Over 11 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry were recalled over listeria concerns, affecting salads, wraps, frozen meals and more from popular chains like Target, Trader Joe's and Walmart. -
The suspect "didn’t even get close to getting a round off," and never had a line of sight on Trump, authorities said. Ryan Wesley Routh is facing federal gun-related charges in the incident. -
Ryan Wesley Routh's digital footprint paints a picture of a disillusioned former Trump supporter who took up an impassioned defense of Ukraine. Here's what else we know about the 58-year-old suspect. -
Jeffrey Piccolo's wife died after eating at a Disney World restaurant. Disney wanted his claims handled out of court based on the terms of his years-old Disney+ trial, but reversed its position.
