Eliana Johnson

Editor-in-Chief , Washington Free Beacon

Eliana Johnson is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet focused on public policy, national security and the media. She has experience across journalism, in conservative media and the mainstream and in both television and print. Prior to joining the Free Beacon in October 2019, she was a White House correspondent at POLITICO and a political analyst for CNN. Her political analysis has been featured on NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s Think Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, and PBS’ NewsHour. She spent four years as Washington Editor of the National Review, where she was lead reporter on the 2016 elections, and three years as a writer for the show Hannity on Fox News. She began her career as a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations and earned a BA from Yale University in history.