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Laura Esposito is an award-winning writer and reporter based in New York.
Currently, she covers politics and power at The Daily Beast. Before that, she was a criminal justice reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Laura holds a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Rutgers University.
Get in touch at [email protected] or on X @LauraEspositoM.
Exclusives
The campaign is branding Bovino as an outsider shaking up the system-despite his stint in one of the Trump administration's most prominent immigration posts.
To his former athletes, the FBI director is all but unrecognizable.
Politics killed the video star.
Conchita Sarnoff exposed the scandal in 2010 in the Daily Beast-and 16 years on, lives with its impact.
Stylists working with Karoline Leavitt, Usha Vance, and Kristi Noem say dressing MAGA is anything but simple.
The golden age hasn't arrived at Bedminster, a lawsuit claims.
Young GOP leaders are fighting like rats in a sack over the alleged betrayal of one of their own.
Substack, Political Reporting
Laura Esposito covers the rising stars of MAGA and the manosphere for The Swamp. Her reporting takes you inside the parties and power plays shaping the right's next generation. Invite her to your parties: [email protected]
Laura Esposito is an award-winning reporter and writer. Prior to joining The Daily Beast, she covered public safety at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where her work often examined the intersection of criminal justice, politics, and extremism. She also held roles at media outlets including The Trace, MSNBC, and SiriusXM.
Local and State Reporting
Harrisburg. Butler. Manhattan. San Francisco. Mackinac Island. From small cities, to major metropolises, to family vacation homes, political violence...
Four years ago, Winston Pingeon stood shoulder to shoulder with his fellow officers, the only line of defense between a vicious mob that vastly outnumbered...
It's not a crime to hate. In America, anyone can believe in the most toxic, radical ideas, as long as they don't act upon them. What might have pushed...
If there was ever a time to sit down and share a meal with strangers of different faiths and ideologies, it seems unlikely that time would be now. Americans...
Inject enough fear into people, and some will bend or completely break laws and societal norms. That's according to Shamil Idriss, chief executive officer...
WASHINGTON - Amid the smoke and haze and shattered glass of the Capitol building, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell was covered in blood and gasping for breath...
The shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Butler in 2024, the most high-profile act of political violence since the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, hardened the identity of Butler County towns.
Butler County is known around the world as the place where Donald Trump was the target of an assassin's bullet, but its residents likely will tell...
In Corey Comperatore's final moment, he did what came naturally to the father of two daughters: He protected his family. With his own life. "He...
The gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump purchased 50 rounds of ammunition at Allegheny Arms and Gun Works in Bethel Park hours before the...
James Irey had to choose between chronic pain or losing his constitutional rights. While serving in the Army as an indirect fire infantryman,...
At noon on Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year, Rabbi Aaron Meyer stood at the pulpit at Temple Emanuel of South Hills and tried to deliver...
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance implored Christian voters to "take this country back" during a town hall meeting Saturday in...
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance promised residents here Saturday that he and former President Donald Trump would...
Policing, Criminal Justice and Community Violence Intervention
Two weeks before May's primary election, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey stood laughing at the center of a freshly paved traffic garden, surrounded by...
When Mayor Ed Gainey took office in 2022, the most urgent questions in Pittsburgh and around the country were centered on crime and public safety. Pittsburgh...
To reduce youth violence in Pittsburgh, officials are funding football. As part of the city's Stop the Violence efforts, an initiative that...
The day the Bedford-Stuyvesant native's sister Maisha was struck by a stray bullet changed the direction of her life.
Can increasing armed school security reduce deaths from active shootings or deter the attacks in the first place? Experts say the data is not encouraging.
International Reporting
JERUSALEM (RNS) - As Israelis continue to protest in unprecedented numbers against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed overhaul of the judicial system, political tensions arise within Jewish families during Passover.
Mousseline, a small gourmet ice cream shop directly across the street from the president's residence on Hanasi Street, found itself swamped on Saturday nights, the regular night for the demonstrations in recent months.
First-Person
On the program is Laura Esposito of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, who earlier this year published an in-depth piece on the increase in politically motivated threats and violence across the commonwealth. Esposito helps place the Governor’s Residence arson in a broader context, highlighting how elected officials, law enforcement, and journalists themselves are becoming targets in an increasingly charged atmosphere.
Laura Esposito, public safety reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, speaks about her experience reporting on extremist events in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania.
Reporter Laura Esposito hops on KDKA radio to discuss a search-and-rescue operation for a woman who fell down a 30-foot sinkhole in Westmoreland County.
Last month, I debuted on the Story Club Pittsburgh stage at City of Asylum for their March story slam.
