Jacqueline Trescott
Reporter

Jacqueline Trescott has been a reporter at The Washington Post since 1976. She has been assigned to the Style Section for all of her Post career. Since the early 1990s Trescott has covered the news--from fund-raising to administrative changes--of the region’s performing arts centers, theaters and museums. Trescott, along with staff writer James V. Grimaldi, was cited by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association for their reports on asbestos at the National Air and Space Museum.

Latest by Jacqueline Trescott

Miles Davis shows Post Office has some ‘cool’

Miles Davis, the great American jazzman, and Edith Piaf, the renowned French singer, are the subjects of a new series of postal stamps.

Bob Schieffer to play at Smithsonian on Flag Day

Schieffer and the award-winning band will play a selection of Civil War music in a special program for Flag Day at the National Museum of American History.

Museums offer free admissions for military families

The renewal of the Blue Stars Museums program, which starts Memorial Day and goes through Labor Day, was announced today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Natural History museum to develop exhibit on human genome

The National Museum of Natural History is going to take note of the 10th anniversary of the first complete human genome sequence in a special exhibition in 2013.