Elizabeth Arnold

Elizabeth Arnold is a freelance reporter for NPR. From 2000-2004, she was an NPR national correspondent, covering America's public lands with a focus on the environment, politics, economics, and culture. Arnold's 15 years of reporting experience with NPR began in rural Alaska, moved to the halls of Congress and the presidential campaign trail, and then back west. That path imbues Arnold's reports with both the seasoned experience of national politics and a personal understanding of the rapidly changing American West.

Arnold's stories are heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Her analysis has also been featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation and numerous election specials. She has been a substitute host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She has been a frequent panelist on PBS's Washington Week in Review and a guest on the Jim Lehrer Newhour.

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. 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.