Domenico Montanaro
Domenico Montanaro is NPR's senior political editor/correspondent. Based in Washington, D.C., his work appears on air and online delivering analysis of the political climate in Washington and campaigns. He also helps edit political coverage.
Montanaro joined NPR in 2015 and oversaw coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign, including for broadcast and digital.
Before joining NPR, Montanaro served as political director and senior producer for politics and law at PBS NewsHour. There, he led domestic political and legal coverage, which included the 2014 midterm elections, the Supreme Court, and the unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
Prior to PBS NewsHour, Montanaro was deputy political editor at NBC News, where he covered two presidential elections and reported and edited for the network's political blog, "First Read." He has also worked at CBS News, ABC News, The Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, and taught high school English.
Montanaro earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
A native of Queens, N.Y., Montanaro is a life-long Mets fan and college basketball junkie.
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In recent days, a top Senate Republican has said the coronavirus testing the United States has done so far is "not nearly enough." -
Trump has also attributed the high number of cases in the U.S. to heightened testing. But testing in the U.S. is still not adequate or widespread enough to know who has coronavirus. -
The coronavirus pandemic is an example of when Americans want competence from their government at all levels and need to be able to trust their leaders. -
Georgia is set to open up lots of businesses Friday — despite not meeting the benchmarks to move into phase one of the White House's reopening guidelines. -
A month ago, President Trump went on Fox and downplayed the potential lethality of the novel coronavirus and compared it to the seasonal flu. -
President Trump seems to be itching for states to reopen — frankly, faster than his own administration's guidelines recommend. -
President Trump is passing the buck on testing and plans to "reopen" states, and many of governors don't like it. -
President Trump laid out new guidelines to states to start retracting their restrictions as early as Friday. But there are still a lot of questions to consider. -
President Trump said some states could open even before May 1. That's two weeks away. Here's what to watch related to the coronavirus.
