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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A lynx stretching in the sun, tadpoles swimming beneath lily pads and an investigator dusting a tusk for prints are among the winning images from the newest Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. -
The election and Atlantic hurricane seasons are overlapping with dramatic effect, and not for the first time. Here's what we can learn from other storms that shaped elections, from Katrina to Maria. -
Milton has grown quickly and is forecast to make landfall in Florida midweek. The state could see its largest evacuation orders since 2017. -
An appeals court sided with Uber, ruling a couple can't sue over a near-fatal car crash because they had agreed to Uber's arbitration clause. Their lawyer is worried about a "slippery slope." -
Tim Walz and JD Vance shook hands multiple times on the debate stage, and each spoke of several areas in which they agree with the other. Here are some examples. -
More than 60 people were reported dead across the southeastern U.S. and millions were without power. Widespread flooding and landslides and cellular outages in western North Carolina impeded rescues. -
Helene, now a post-tropical cyclone, continues to flood parts of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley. Dozens of storm-related deaths were reported in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. -
Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph. -
Oran Routh, 35, was arrested after the FBI searched his home in connection with another investigation. He's been charged with one count each of receipt and possession of images of child sex abuse. -
Helene is forecast to intensify rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Florida on Thursday. Residents are urged to make preparations — and in many counties, evacuate — before then.
