Contributor Gail Russell Chaddock was the Monitor’s Washington-based politics editor, after covering Congress from 2001 until 2012 and education from 1997 to to 2000. Prior to her Washington assignments, Chaddock served as the Monitor’s Paris correspondent from 1994 to 1997. From 1992 to 1994, she was the Monitor’s Boston-based national news editor, responsible for the paper’s daily coverage of US news. Before that assignment, she served as an overseas news editor from 1987 to 1992.
Before joining the Monitor, Chaddock taught political science at Bennington College, Wesleyan University, and Swarthmore College from 1978 to 1986. She holds an MA in Political Science from Princeton University and a BA from Wellesley College.
She and her husband, Rob, live on the family farm in Brookline, New Hampshire, where she hosts the podcast “No Farms No Future” for American Farmland Trust. Gail is a frequent guest host on the Monitor’s “Why We Wrote This” podcast.
Stories by Gail Russell Chaddock
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Free and fair? Fast? Sifting hopes and realities for Election 2024.
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This New rules, big storms: A politics writer on the scrutiny that Election 2024 needs
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘Five feet from the president’: Watching history unfold as the press pool reporter
- The Explainer Do presidential debates really matter? What history shows.
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