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Mara Liasson (born June 13, 1955 in New York City) is a national political correspondent for National Public Radio, and a regular panelist on Special Report with Brit Hume and Fox News Sunday on Fox News Channel.

Liasson is a national political correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR.) She joined NPR in 1985 as a general assignment reporter and newscaster. Liasson’s reports can be heard on the newsmagazine shows All Things Considered and Morning Edition. During her tenure, she covered the 1992, 1996 and 2000 presidential elections and prior to her current assignment, Liasson was NPR's White House correspondent during all eight years of the Clinton administration. In 1991, Liasson spent three weeks in Amman, Jordan where she reported on the aftermath of the Gulf War.

Liasson received a Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. From September 1998 to June 1999, she took a leave of absence to attend Columbia University in New York.^{[citation needed]} Shortly thereafter, she returned to NPR as its congressional correspondent.

Prior to joining NPR, Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco. She was also managing editor and anchor of California Edition, a California Public Radio nightly news program, and a print journalist for The Vineyard Gazette in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Liasson has received numerous awards and honors for her reporting, including the White House Correspondents’ Association ‘Merriman Smith Award’ in 1994, 1995, and 1997 for excellence in daily news reporting.

She is a graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in American history.

Liasson describes herself as "center-left".

She is Married to Jonathan Cuneo of Cuneo,Gilbert, & LaDuca, LLC of Washington, DC.

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