Sarah McCammon
Sarah McCammon is a National Correspondent covering the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast for NPR. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion and reproductive rights, and the intersections of politics and religion. She's also a frequent guest host for NPR news magazines, podcasts and special coverage.
During the 2016 election cycle, she was NPR's lead political reporter assigned to the Donald Trump campaign. In that capacity, she was a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast and reported on the GOP primary, the rise of the Trump movement, divisions within the Republican Party over the future of the GOP and the role of religion in those debates.
Prior to joining NPR in 2015, McCammon reported for NPR Member stations in Georgia, Iowa and Nebraska, where she often hosted news magazines and talk shows. She's covered debates over oil pipelines in the Southeast and Midwest, agriculture in Nebraska, the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in Iowa and coastal environmental issues in Georgia.
McCammon began her journalism career as a newspaper reporter. She traces her interest in news back to childhood, when she would watch Sunday-morning political shows – recorded on the VCR during church – with her father on Sunday afternoons. In 1998, she spent a semester serving as a U.S. Senate Page.
She's been honored with numerous regional and national journalism awards, including the Atlanta Press Club's "Excellence in Broadcast Radio Reporting" award in 2015. She was part of a team of NPR journalists that received a first-place National Press Club award in 2019 for their coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack.
McCammon is a native of Kansas City, Mo. She spent a semester studying at Oxford University in the U.K. while completing her undergraduate degree at Trinity College near Chicago.
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Police say three men face charges for assault in the weekend brawl on a riverfront dock in Montgomery. They turned themselves in as the city tries to move on from the national attention it received.
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It's a move that should trigger general elections by November. But already there are concerns that elections could be delayed — potentially throwing the country into more instability.
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Three people are charged with assault after a waterside brawl in Montgomery, Ala. Pakistan's parliament is expected to be dissolved. Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg launches a PAC.
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President Biden heads to the Grand Canyon to tout his environmental policies. An election in Ohio has implications for abortion. The Red Cross allows blood donations from men who have sex with men.
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Special counsel Jack Smith wants a protective order to limit what former President Donald Trump can disclose about the Jan. 6 case against him. Trump's team has until 5 p.m. ET on Monday to respond.
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Saudi Arabia hosted talks with dozens of nations over the weekend as Ukrainian leaders push for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.
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A Sunday deadline imposed on the junta in Niger to relinquish power or face military action by a 15-member block of West African nations has expired. What comes next?
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Donald Trump's attorneys near deadline to respond to a request by prosecutors for a protective order. Coup leaders close Niger's airspace. Ukraine calls summit on ending war with Russia "productive."
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Former president Donald Trump addressed conservative voters at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
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One year after anti-abortion rights activists and politicians achieved their goal of overturning Roe v. Wade, they are rethinking where to focus their efforts.