Jay Carney

Jay Carney is Washington Bureau Chief for Time Magazine, a post he has held since September 2005. He is a regular contributor in the "roundtable" segment of ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos".

Biography

Carney was Time's Deputy Washington Bureau Chief from 2003-2005. He was assigned to the magazine’s Washington Bureau in that tenure while also being able to write about politics and national affairs. Carney has covered politics and national and foreign affairs for Time since 1993. He also served as a Time White House correspondent (now Mike Allen's job).

Carney joined Time in 1988. He has written and reported about the Bush presidency. Carney is also notable because he was one of a handful of reporters who was aboard Air Force One with President Bush on Sept. 11, 2001. Carney later won the 2003 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.

Before coming to Washington in 1993 to report on the Bill Clinton White House, Carney worked as a correspondent in Time's Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Before that he was Time's Miami bureau chief.

Carney has also worked for CNN (another TIME Warner division) as a special correspondent. Carney is from Virginia and earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University in 1987. He and his wife Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News), live in Washington, DC, with their son and daughter. [ [http://www.time.com/time/mediakit/about/biographies/senioreditorialstaff/carney.html Biography] , TIME.com]

On January 23, 2007, Carney wrote in Time.com's Swampland group blog that in late 1994 and early 1995, Bill Clinton's approval ratings were "mired in the 30's", whereas they had reached 37% in 1993, but rose into the 40s and 50s in 1994 and 1995. [ [http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/01/the_clinton_playbook.html The Clinton Playbook] , TIME.com Swampland Blog] [ [http://137.99.36.203/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating_detail.cfm?allRate=True&presidentName=Clinton Clinton Approval] , Roper Center for Public Opinion Research] In a follow-up post, Carney wrote that the reaction of some who posted comments to his original post "proves nothing but that the left is as full of unthinking Ditto-heads as Limbaugh-land." [ [http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/01/re_the_clinton_playbook_1.html RE: The Clinton Playbook] , TIME.com Swampland Blog] By the end of one day these two Carney posts had received over 900 comments.

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