Emma Hurt is a business reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering transportation and logistics.
She previously was an editor for Axios based in Colorado, where her work included leading coordination between the local and national newsrooms during the 2024 election.
Prior to that she covered politics for Axios in Atlanta and for Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE News. In that position, she filed regularly for NPR and Marketplace and served as a BBC Radio contributor. She’s an alum of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette where she covered the trucking and tech industries.
Emma traveled to Berlin as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow during the 2021 German elections.
She studied history at Rice University but comes by her profession honestly, as a third-generation journalist on both sides of her family.