Jason Breslow
Jason Breslow is an editor with NPR's Washington Desk, where he edits coverage of Congress and other news out of the nation's capital.
Before joining NPR in 2018, he led the award-winning digital team at FRONTLINE, where he managed a staff of reporters, developers and designers. In his time as the series' digital editor, he and his team were recognized with multiple honors, including an Emmy for outstanding new approaches to documentary; the World Press Photo Interactive of the Year award; an Online Journalism Award for excellence and innovation in visual storytelling; and a Scripps Howard prize for excellence in multimedia journalism.
He began his journalism career writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, but has also reported and produced for Bloomberg News, PBS NewsHour, The Boston Globe and NPR member station WBUR in Boston.
He holds a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor's in communications from American University. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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The Republican megabill cuts trillions in taxes, while scaling back spending on Medicaid and other federal programs. It now heads to the House, where some GOP lawmakers are signaling major objections. -
More than 130 million metric tons of single-use plastics were thrown out in 2019, according to a new report that puts Exxon Mobil atop a list of the companies that produce it. -
The president said he will move to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of an active U.S. military presence in the country. -
With new cases teetering at about 60,000 to 70,000 per day, new hyper-transmissible variants and state rollbacks of coronavirus restrictions, the CDC chief urges Americans to remain vigilant. -
The court sided with two churches that said a ban on indoor church services violated their rights to free exercise of religion. But the justices let stand restrictions that cap attendance at 25%. -
The new travel order will require passengers to wear face coverings on nearly all forms of public transportation, including airplanes, ships, ferries, trains, subways, buses, taxis and ride-shares. -
At 22 years old, the Los Angeles native will become the youngest poet in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration. -
"I suspect many senior members of the government are going to have to go into quarantine," says Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. -
A U.S. District judge has ruled that the law, which would have required felons to pay court-related debts before they can register to vote, discriminates against those who cannot afford the payments.
