Andrea McCarren explained

Andrea McCarren is a television journalist and educator.[1] [2]

Education and private life

After attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, McCarren attended the London School of Economics. She earned an anthropology degree, cum laude. Thereafter, she attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Journalism on a KCBS-TV Fellowship.[1] She shares three children with husband Bill McCarren, the executive director of the National Press Club.

Career

McCarren has served as a local reporter in multiple cities across the United States prior to beginning her career reporting news in Washington D.C. in 1991 at WUSA-TV, the CBS station.[1] She covered the presidency of Bill Clinton for ABC and served as DC correspondent for NBC.[1] She has traveled to and reported on stories in El Salvador and joined Clinton multiple times on Air Force One.[1] She also served as an investigative reporter for WJLA-TV in D.C.,[3] until economic downturns in 2009 led the station to terminate her employment with 25 other staff members.[4]

McCarren is also an educator. The first teacher of broadcast journalism at Harvard University, she taught a curriculum of her own design.[1] [5] [6]

Among other honors, McCarren is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard.[1] [3]

Andrea McCarren has been promoted to PenFed Foundation President and Senior Vice President for PenFed Digital. She is a nationally recognized advocate for veterans and military families.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography . Northwest Alcohol Conference . 14 February 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130415110446/http://www.northwestalcoholconference.org/McCarrenAndrea-Bio2012.html . 15 April 2013 .
  2. Web site: Andrea McCarren Reporter . WUSA9 . 2015-12-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208082142/http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/2014/01/08/andrea-mccarren-reporter/4372063/ . 2015-12-08 .
  3. News: Two Years Later, Justice Denied In reporting a story about public officials' misuse of government funds, police injure an investigative journalist in a 'particularly violent encounter.' . Summer 2007 . Nieman Reports . Andrew . McCarren . https://web.archive.org/web/20130602224525/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/100231/Two-Years-Later-Justice-Denied.aspx. 14 February 2013. 2 June 2013.
  4. News: Citing Economy, WJLA Fires 26 Staffers . https://archive.today/20130412041417/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-01-24/news/36897871_1_allbritton-communications-job-cuts-newschannel . dead . April 12, 2013 . Neely . Tucker . January 24, 2009 . 14 February 2013 . Washington Post.
  5. Web site: WUSA's McCarren Named Merrill Commencement Speaker. Philip Merrill College of Journalism. 2015-12-05. en-US.
  6. Web site: NewsRoomAmerica.com - Andrea McCarren wins new honors at WUSA9. www.newsroomamerica.com. 2015-12-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208065643/http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/371549/andrea_mccarren_wins_new_honors_at_wusa9.html. 2015-12-08. dead.

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