Pam Fessler

Former NPR correspondent

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Pam Fessler was an award-winning correspondent with NPR News, where she worked for 28 years and covered poverty, philanthropy, and voting issues. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland. In her reporting at NPR, Fessler did stories on homelessness, hunger, affordable housing, and income inequality. Her poverty reporting was recognized with a 2011 First Place National Headliner Award.

Fessler also covered elections and voting, including efforts to make voting more accessible, accurate, and secure. She did countless stories on everything from the debate over state voter identification laws to Russian hacking attempts and long lines at the polls. 

She also served as NPR’s Chief Elections Editor, Washington Desk Editor and National Desk Editor. Before coming to NPR, she covered Congress for 13 years as a senior writer for Congressional Quarterly, and was a reporter for The Record newspaper in New Jersey.