Tamara Keith
Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.
Previously Keith covered congress for NPR with an emphasis on House Republicans, the budget, taxes, and the fiscal fights that dominated at the time.
Keith joined NPR in 2009 as a Business Reporter. In that role, she reported on topics spanning the business world, from covering the debt downgrade and debt ceiling crisis to the latest in policy debates, legal issues, and technology trends. In early 2010, she was on the ground in Haiti covering the aftermath of the country's disastrous earthquake, and later she covered the oil spill in the Gulf. In 2011, Keith conceived of and solely reported "The Road Back To Work," a year-long series featuring the audio diaries of six people in St. Louis who began the year unemployed and searching for work.
Keith has deep roots in public radio and got her start in news by writing and voicing essays for NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday as a teenager. While in college, she launched her career at NPR Member station KQED's California Report, where she covered agriculture, the environment, economic issues, and state politics. She covered the 2004 presidential election for NPR Member station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, and opened the state capital bureau for NPR Member station KPCC/Southern California Public Radio to cover then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In 2001, Keith began working on B-Side Radio, an hour-long public radio show and podcast that she co-founded, produced, hosted, edited, and distributed for nine years.
Keith earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree at the UCB Graduate School of Journalism. Keith is part of the Politics Monday team on the PBS NewsHour, a weekly segment rounding up the latest political news. Keith is also a member of the Bad News Babes, a media softball team that once a year competes against female members of Congress in the Congressional Women's Softball game.
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We look at what the Trump White House did in early 2017, and what might be different this time around.
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President-elect Donald Trump did his first network TV interview since winning reelection on Sunday. He appeared on "Meet the Press."
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President-elect Donald Trump's embattled nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, faces a tough path to confirmation in the Senate. He is the third Trump pick so far to run into issues.
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Pete Hegseth is fighting to keep his nomination on track after a series of negative reports about his past behavior — including a damning email his mother sent him during his second divorce.
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The new agreement will help Trump officials on agency landing teams access classified information needed to prepare to take over on Jan. 20.
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This is one of two agreements that was supposed to have been signed by Oct. 1. The Trump team has decided to forgo the second one, saying it has its own systems in place.
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NPR's Scott Detrow and Tamara Keith have long discussed the merits of brining a Thanksgiving turkey. Chef and cookbook author Sohla El-Waylly joins this year's discussion and offers some tips.
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President Biden has less than 60 days left in the White House. Here's what he has planned.
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FBI background checks and ethics agreements are a standard part of vetting cabinet nominees. But, so far, the Trump transition is going its own way.
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Cheung, a former spokesperson for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, brought a cage fighter's spirit to speaking on behalf of Trump during the campaign.