Rachel Treisman Rachel Treisman is an editor on NPR's digital news desk.
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Rachel Treisman

Rachel Treisman

Editor, Digital

Rachel Treisman (she/her) is an editor on NPR's digital news desk, where she reports news of the day and leads the network's live blogs, helping shape digital coverage of breaking stories and political events. She also writes in-depth features and reports for broadcast, including the hourly newscast.

She has written hundreds of high-performing breaking news and feature stories across a wide range of topics, with a special focus on politics and pop culture. She joins the Newshub from Morning Edition, where she reported news and feature stories for both digital and radio platforms, traveling to London for Queen Elizabeth's funeral and Michigan for its 2024 primary.

Treisman has worn many hats since arriving at NPR as a National Desk intern in 2019, including writing for NPR's flagship Up First newsletter, running Morning Edition's social media accounts, curating radio content for the NPR One app, live blogging multiple election cycles and tracking every state's restrictions and reopenings during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Story Archive

Monday

Workers place sheets of wood over windows and glass doors to protect them from the strong winds expected with the arrival of Hurricane Milton in the hotel zone of Cancun, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on Monday. Hurricane Milton exploded in strength Monday to become a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm bound for Florida, the second ferocious storm to hit the region in as many weeks. Elizabeth Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

John and Georgia McGinty tried to sue Uber for financial compensation after suffering numerous serious injuries when their Uber crashed into another car in early 2022. Stark & Stark hide caption

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Stark & Stark

Tuesday

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance shake hands after the vice presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Tuesday in New York City. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) participates in a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 1, 2024 in New York City. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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Saturday

David Hester inspects damages of his house on Saturday after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Fla. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

This photo provided by U.S. Coast Guard District Seven (@USCGSoutheast) shows a man and his dog being rescued after his sailboat became disabled during Hurricane Helene approximately 25 miles off Sanibel Island, Fla., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. U.S. Coast Guard District Seven via AP hide caption

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U.S. Coast Guard District Seven via AP

Thursday

People are splashed by churning surf from Tampa Bay as Hurricane Helene passes offshore on Sept. 26, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

Oran Routh was arrested on charges of possession and receipt of child sexual abuse images on the same day his father, Ryan Routh, was charged with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The impacts of Hurricane Helene are expected to be felt far inland, as shown by this map of flash flooding risks. National Hurricane Center hide caption

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National Hurricane Center

Tuesday

Luis Armando Albino was kidnapped as a child from a park in Oakland, Calif., in 1951. Seven decades later, his niece took an online DNA test that led authorities to his home on the East Coast. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Kim Yeji of Korea, seen during the Paris Olympics in August, has been cast as an assassin in a "short-form series." Charles McQuillan/Getty Images hide caption

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Aero Center Wilmington in Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

New York Magazine political correspondent Olivia Nuzzi is on leave after disclosing a relationship with a former reporting subject, allegedly with then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images/Stefan Jeremiah/AP hide caption

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Thursday

A photo provided by the FBI in October 2023 shows former CIA officer Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who pleaded guilty that year to drugging, filming and sexually assaulting dozens of women across multiple countries over a 14-year period. AP/FBI hide caption

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TikToks by passengers on the Ultimate World Cruise — screenshot by NPR — capture the highs and lows of the nine-month journey, which ended last week. @drjennytravels/@anthonyantoine1021/@brooklyntravelstheworld hide caption

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Monday

Tito Jackson, pictured here attending the diamond birthday celebration for his late brother Michael Jackson on August 29, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker/Getty Images hide caption

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Photos show a rifle and backpack found by law enforcement at the fence of a golf course where former President Donald Trump was on Sunday. Secret Service agents fired at a suspect along the fence in West Palm Beach, Fla. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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This photograph taken on Independence Square in Kyiv in June 2022 shows Ryan Wesley Routh sticking up the national flags of the countries helping Ukraine. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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