Amanda Terkel

Amanda Terkel is the Washington Bureau Chief at HuffPost where she leads the site's political coverage, managing the newsroom and reporting out stories. Previously, she served as Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and the Managing Editor of ThinkProgress.org.

At HuffPost, Terkel oversees a team of reporters covering campaigns, Congress and other political developments around the country. During the 2020 presidential season, she moderated one of the largest forums in the Democratic primary, with nearly every single candidate in the large field in attendance.

While at ThinkProgress, Terkel helped guide the site from a start-up nonprofit blog to an award-winning progressive site that drives the debates of the day, focusing on rapid-response research, reporting and analysis.

Terkel's writings have been published by The New York Times, Politico, Salon, The Daily Beast, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, The American Prospect, and In These Times. She has appeared as a guest on various television and radio networks, including MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN and BBC.

Terkel's writings have been published by a number of outlets, including The New York Times, Politico, The Daily Beast, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Guardian. She has appeared as a guest on various TV and radio networks, including MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN and BBC. She is also the recipient of The Hillman Prize for Journalism and Washingtonian magazine's Washington Women In Journalism "Rising Star" award.

Terkel is a graduate of Colgate University and grew up in Western New York.