Maeve Reston
Los Angeles, CA
National political reporter covering the 2024 presidential race and the politics of the West.
Education: Cornell University, BA in English; Dartmouth College, MA in Liberal Studies (History)
Maeve Reston is a national political reporter for The Washington Post covering the 2024 presidential race and the politics of the West. She joined The Post in 2023 after covering politics and five presidential campaigns at CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Austin American-Statesman. She spent seven years at CNN, where she covered the 2016 and 2020 presidential races, as well as midterm elections, for both television and digital audiences. Her coverage focused in part on the politics of the western half of the United States, including through an original digital vi