Emma Colton is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, with a focus on the White House under the Biden administration and second Trump administration.Read More
Emma joined Fox News Digital in 2021, covering law enforcement, Second Amendment issues, the defund the police movement and fallout from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic crime wave. She has covered top federal investigations and trials, including courtroom coverage of Hunter Biden’s Delaware gun trial, as well as coverage of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump.
She also has extensively covered the bevy of court cases against Trump, including the Manhattan trial, the New York civil fraud case and Georgia election racketeering case. She broke news on how the defund the police movement caused a massive spike in murders in 2020, fentanyl’s devastating grip on the nation, the GOP’s platform under the second Trump administration, Trump's cabinet in his second administration and many more.
Emma hit the campaign trail in 2024, when she reported live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and battleground states such as Pennsylvania, speaking directly to voters and candidates ahead of the November election.
A proud New Jersey native who brings her rural background to the nation’s capital, Emma has been in political journalism since she got the news bug in 2014. She previously worked as a deputy editor at the Daily Caller News Foundation, and as a reporter and editor at the Washington Examiner. Her reporting can be found on Fox News Digital, Fox Business, the New York Post and other outlets.
You can send tips to emma.colton@fox.com and follow her on Twitter @EmmColt.
