PALMERI
Tara

• 1. Career

Tara Palmeri is an American journalist. She is currently the Senior Political Correspondent for subscription news platform Puck.

Previously, she served as Chief National Correspondent at Politico and host and chief investigative reporter of two Sony Music podcasts: "Broken: Seeking Justice" and "Power: The Maxwells". She previously worked for Washington Examiner and the New York Post and was a White House correspondent for ABC News.

Career

Palmeri started her career at CNN as a news assistant in the D.C. bureau in 2009. She subsequently joined the Washington Examiner where she co-wrote a daily column called "Yeas & Nays".

She moved to New York in 2010 when she was hired by the New York Post to write for the paper's Page Six gossip column. She also worked as a general assignment reporter and covered stories including the John Edwards trial, the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, the 2012 Democratic and Republican National conventions and the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide. Palmeri then began covering politics as a New York City Hall reporter.

Politico hired her to cover European politics from Brussels in 2015. After the 2016 presidential election, Politico had her come back to Washington as a White House reporter covering the Trump administration. During her tenure, she broke exclusive stories, including one on White House staffers who failed FBI background checks, which led White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to call Palmeri "an idiot with no real sources."

CNN announced in 2017 that Palmeri was hired as a political analyst for the network, while continuing to cover President Trump for Politico. Palmeri was hired by ABC News as a full-time White House correspondent in October 2017. From ABC News president James Goldston's memo on her hiring: "Tara is a tenacious reporter with a keen instinct for political scoops, and a thoughtful analyst of both politics and policy... Tara joins us at a time when news from Washington continues to dominate the news cycle and impact every aspect of our audience’s lives."

Palmeri left ABC News and re-joined Politico to work as a co-author of its newsletter Playbook in 2021. In 2022, Palmeri joined the journalism startup Puck. At Puck, Palmeri broke the news that Nancy Pelosi would resign as Speaker of the House after the 2022 midterm elections.