Carrie Johnson covers a wide variety of stories about justice issues, law enforcement, and legal affairs for NPR’s flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Johnson regularly appears on the NPR Politics Podcast and the Trump’s Trials Podcast.

Johnson worked at The Washington Post for 10 years. Earlier in her career, she wrote about courts for the weekly publication Legal Times.

Her work has been honored with awards from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, the Society for Professional Journalists, and SABEW. She served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University from 2019-2020. She has been a finalist for the Loeb Award for financial journalism and for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for team coverage of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.

Johnson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Benedictine University in Illinois. She sits on the advisory board for the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-M and the Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit.

Johnson briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2022: Mar-a-Lago and Investigating Trump. She also briefed NPF fellows in March 2025: “Journalists Are Where the Accountability Needs to Happen”: How to Cover the DOJ.