Ashley Parker

Staff Writer, The Atlantic

At ISOJ 2025, Ashley was a speaker on the panel “Covering Trump 2.0: Challenges facing journalists in Washington, DC.” Watch the session here.

Ashley Parker is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Previously, Ashley—a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner—spent eight years at The Washington Post, where she covered all four years of Donald Trump’s first presidency, was White House bureau chief during President Joe Biden’s first two years, and covered the 2024 presidential campaign as the senior national political correspondent. Before that, she spent more than a decade at The New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress. She is also a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.