Elahe Izadi

Washington, D.C.

Media reporter and "Post Reports" co-host

Education: University of Maryland, Bachelor of Arts degrees in journalism and history

Elahe Izadi co-hosts the daily flagship podcast "Post Reports" and is also a reporter covering media. She joined The Post in 2014 as a general assignment reporter and the Style section in 2016 as a pop culture writer. She has previously covered Congress, demographics and local news, and worked for National Journal, WAMU 88.5, TBD.com and the Gazette community newspapers.
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Latest from Elahe Izadi

CNN fires longtime host and anchor Don Lemon

Lemon, a longtime host for CNN, was chastised recently for on-air comments about the "prime" age of presidential candidate Nikki Haley and other women.

April 24, 2023

The deadly world of white-supremacist prison gangs

Missing people, buried car parts and human remains in Oklahoma: the silent but not so secret influence of white-supremacist prison gangs.

April 21, 2023

BuzzFeed News, a digital media pioneer, to shut down

BuzzFeed News, a pioneering digital news site that won a Pulitzer Prize and the published infamous Steele dossier, said Thursday it will close after 12 years.

April 20, 2023

    What Fox News avoided by reaching a settlement

    On April 18 Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems potentially avoiding a lengthy trial.

    April 19, 2023

      Fox News still faces $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic

      Fox News’s legal troubles related to the 2020 presidential election are far from over.

      April 19, 2023

      Fox News’s quiet coverage of its blockbuster settlement with Dominion

      Fox News agreed to $787.5 million in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion — a fact barely mentioned on Fox's airwaves.

      April 19, 2023

      Dominion v. Fox News trial abruptly canceled after settlement reached

      News of the agreement came at the start of Dominion v. Fox News, one of the most highly anticipated media cases in decades.

      April 18, 2023

      Fox News, Dominion settle defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million

      The agreement brings an abrupt end to one of the most significant media cases in recent decades, one that hinged on false claims about a presidential election.

      April 18, 2023

      "I don't want to die trying to have a baby."

      Today, we look at how vague language in antiabortion laws has disrupted the standard of care for a pregnancy complication called PPROM.

      April 18, 2023

      The Dominion vs. Fox defamation case is finally going to trial

      Big questions loom in the $1.6 billion trial centered on false election fraud claims Fox aired about a voting technology company.

      April 16, 2023