Elizabeth Arnold
Elizabeth Arnold
Elizabeth Arnold has worked in public radio for twenty years, fifteen as a
national correspondent for NPR.
Arnold's reporting experience with NPR began in rural Alaska, moved to the
halls of Congress and the presidential campaign trail, and then back west, and
home to Alaska. That path imbues Arnold's reports with both the seasoned
experience of national politics and a personal understanding of the rapidly
changing American landscape.
Arnold is perhaps best known for nearly a decade of political reporting on
Capitol Hill. As a congressional reporter and then as NPR's national political
correspondent, Arnold covered the House and Senate, congressional campaigns,
and four presidential elections. From incumbent President George Bush's battle
to win a second term to the Clinton White House, the Republican takeover of
Congress, Bob Dole's ill-fated campaign, and George W. Bush's controversial
election, Arnold tirelessly reported local, state, and national politics from
the heartland, the campaign plane, and the convention halls. Along the way she
won numerous awards, most notably the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for
Outstanding Journalism, the Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting on
Congress, and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Universty Silver Baton for
Excellence in Journalism.
She's also received top honors from the Society of Professional Journalists,
American Women in Radio and Television, and the Washington Press Club
Foundation.
Arnold began her career in journalism between seasons as a commercial salmon
fisherman, as a reporter for the San Juan Examiner and the Telluride Times in
Colorado and for the Tundra Drums, in Bethel, Alaska.
Arnold graduated cum laude from Colgate University in New York with bachelor's
degrees in English and fine arts. She remains an avid hiker, skier, and
long-distance runner. (She did, however, sell her Harley Davidson to pay for
her son's pre-school tuition.)
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