Emma Talkoff

Assistant Producer at The Washington Post

Currently making audio @washingtonpost. Formerly @MorningEdition. Forever sleepy

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Club raids, influencers: How Putin's playbook is pushing young Russians toward ultranationalism

Dec 18, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Monica Campbell |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Emma Talkoff |Jennifer Amur |Paul Schemm | +1 more
What's up with all these food recalls?

Dec 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Lucy Perkins |Emma Talkoff |Reena Flores |Justin Gerrish |Tracy Jan
Can RFK Jr. make America healthy again?

Nov 25, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Maggie Penman |Emma Talkoff |Reena Flores
Post Reports: Mapping how Harris or Trump might win

Nov 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Reena Flores |Ariel Plotnick |Emma Talkoff |Rennie Svirnovskiy

Eavesdrop on Post Opinions columnists as they have frank, thoughtful conversations on the news moments we can’t stop thinking about.
How Trump would fight a 2024 election loss

Oct 24, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Monica Campbell |Emma Talkoff |Ariel Plotnick |Sean Carter |Martine Powers

The morning after the 2020 election, then-president Donald Trump prematurely declared victory and claimed that a “fraud” was being perpetrated on the American public. He would go on to wage a campaign against the 2020 results, which culminated in rioters storming the U.S. Capitol. Now, with Trump back on the ballot, experts are concerned that Trump and his allies may use the same playbook they did in 2020 to challenge the 2024 results.
What Trump and Harris could do to your health care

Oct 10, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Reena Flores |Sean Carter |Stephen Smith |Emma Talkoff |Rennie Svirnovskiy

Eavesdrop on Post Opinions columnists as they have frank, thoughtful conversations on the news moments we can’t stop thinking about.
Israel, one year after Oct. 7

Oct 7, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Monica Campbell |Peter Bresnan |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Emma Talkoff |Reena Flores |Sean Carter

Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip awoke on Monday, the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks, in the same way they were roused on Oct. 7, 2023: to the sound of air-raid sirens. At 6:32 a.m. – almost to the minute of the surprise assaults last year – militants in Gaza launched four rockets toward those same towns and kibbutzim, sending Israelis into shelters and highlighting how the battle continues to rage 12 months after that fateful morning.
Exploding pager attacks in Lebanon, and fears of a wider war

Sep 19, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Monica Campbell |Emma Talkoff |Ted Muldoon

Hezbollah fighters carry the coffins of comrades killed by exploding mobile devices in a funeral procession Wednesday in Beirut's southern suburbs. (Bilal Hussein/AP)Thousands of people were injured across Lebanon this week in back-to-back explosions of electronic devices – pagers, mostly – used by the militant group Hezbollah.
Springfield, Ohio, and the impact of a racist smear

Sep 18, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Peter Bresnan |Reena Flores |Emma Talkoff |Sean Carter

In the past couple weeks, both former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), have pushed unfounded claims about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in the small city of Springfield, Ohio. The story got its start with a viral Facebook post and quickly made its way from far-right corners of the internet into the Republican mainstream.
Running for Congress in a gerrymandered district

Sep 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Reena Flores |Sean Carter |Emma Talkoff

Michael B. Moore speaks to supporters in Charleston, S.C., in June after winning the Democratic primary in the race for the state’s 1st Congressional District seat. (Sam Wolfe for The Washington Post)Businessman Michael B. Moore is running a surprising congressional campaign: He’s trying to win as a Democrat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, a seat that is considered solidly Republican in this election cycle.