Domenico Montanaro
- Non-partisan political commentator for NPR with regular appearances on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS
- Former political director and senior producer at PBS NewsHour
- Knowledgeable, in-depth speaker on current and past events in politics
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Domenico Montanaro Speaker Biography
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.
Montanaro can speak to the latest trends in politics, including his reporting from inside the White House, analysis of the latest legislative movements and the electoral landscape. He has a deep knowledge and understanding of polling and data and how they apply to presidential and congressional campaigns. And he can speak to a wide range of policy subjects, and where they’re going on Capitol Hill – from health care and tax reform to immigration and infrastructure.
He has a deep understanding of context and history and where this moment fits into the broader landscape, how democratic institutions are holding up and the global tension between nationalist populism and the global order that has largely been responsible for the world’s security post-World War Two.
