Maralee Schwartz spent thirty years at The Washington Post, mainly as a political reporter and editor. As National Political Editor, she led an award-winning team of reporters in coverage of the White House, campaigns, and Congress.
In the fall of 2007, she was a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, returning to the Post as Deputy Business and Financial Editor.
Schwartz left the Post in September 2008 to be the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School. She remained at the Kennedy School for another semester as a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Media, Politics, and Public Policy, where she wrote a paper on non-profit journalism. She was asked to return to The Post as interim political editor to manage coverage of the Obama health care legislation.
She has been a judge for numerous journalism awards, and is a consultant for editorial strategy for Politico. She is a member of the Shorenstein Center Advisory Board. Schwartz lives in Washington D.C.
