Kelley Vlahos

Kelley Vlahos is the executive editor of The American Conservative magazine. A resident of Arlington, Virginia, she has spent the last 17 years as a reporter and columnist in Washington, D.C., serving as a long-time political writer for FOXNews.com and contributing editor at TAC before taking the helm of the website in June 2017. Before that, she worked as a writer, digital editor, and social media maven at WTOP.com, the Washington area’s top all-news network.

Beginning her career in 1994 at the Connecticut daily, Torrington Register Citizen, Vlahos went on to nearly five years of reporting for the Greater Hartford daily, The New Britain Herald. Her experience there took her from town and city government and budgets to state Supreme Court cases, the Connecticut General Assembly, crime, education, healthcare, economic development, local and state elections, music and arts, and politics at every imaginable level.

Moving to the nation’s capital in 1999, Vlahos took reporting jobs on both sides of the ideological spectrum, writing mainly about health care, families, and mental health issues for the NASW News. She then shifted to covering Capitol Hill and national politics–including the 2000 presidential election–for ConservativeHQ.com, before landing in the Internet policy and technology beat at the Washington bureau of Bridge News, a global financial newswire now part of Reuters. She began her time at FOXNews.com in June 2001 and has since written about everything from national security and civil liberties in the wake of 9/11 to campaign finance reform, veterans, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Middle East, gun control,the Department of Defense, the conservative movement and the progressive netroots, the media, and the federal budget. She wrote over 100 “House Hunting” and Senate race profiles for 2002 through 2006 election cycles, as well as coverage of the 2004-2008 national conventions; 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections; and every midterm cycle in between.