Tamara Dawnell Keith (/ˈtæmərə/; born September 25, 1979[1]) is an American journalist. She is the White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast with Scott Detrow.[2] She regularly appears on the PBS NewsHour weekly segment "Politics Monday". Keith is on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association, of which she served as president from 2022 to 2023.[3][4]
In 2007, Keith received first-place in the category "Outstanding Story, Radio" for "Overcrowded Prisons' Wastewater Poses Environmental Hazard (Mule Creek Prison)" on The California Report from the Society of Environmental Journalists in the sixth annual contest.[8]
Keith's husband, Ira Gordon, is a cancer researcher and veterinarian.[5] Keith was raised Methodist[9] and is a convert to Judaism, the religion of her husband.[9]
^ abKeith, Tamara (December 10, 2007). "A Recipe for Latke Failure". NPR. When I was converting to Judaism, my rabbi strongly recommended that I buy some cookbooks. It seems part of learning to be Jewish was learning to cook Jewish foods. Growing up Methodist in a small town, my first introduction to latkes was in college after I met my boyfriend, Ira