Ashley Parker Explained

Birth Name:Ashley Rebecca Parker
Birth Place:Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Education:University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Occupation:Journalist
Years Active:2001–present
Awards:Benjamin Franklin Scholar, Nora Magid Mentorship Prize in writing, Pulitzer Prize[1]

Ashley Rebecca Parker is an American journalist, senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post,[2] and senior political analyst for MSNBC. From 2011 to 2017 she was a Washington-based[3] politics reporter[4] for The New York Times.

Personal life

Parker was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland by Bruce and Betty Parker. Her father is a former president of Environmental Industries Association, a Washington, D.C. based trade organization. She has lived in Bethesda for the majority of her life, except during her college years and a few years while working for The New York Times. Her immediate family still resides in the area.[5]

She married Michael C. Bender, who was at the time a White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal, on June 16, 2018.[6]

Parker and her husband have a daughter, Mazarine, born in November 2018.[7] Parker is stepmother to Bender's daughter from a previous marriage.[8]

Education

Parker attended Bethesda's Walt Whitman High School, where she was a member of the class of 2001.[9] She also spent part of her junior year at La Universidad de Sevilla in Spain and has a command of Spanish.

In 2005, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in English (Creative Writing concentration) and Communications.[10] [11] She had been a Pulitz.[12] Parker also completed internships with The New York Sun and the Gaithersburg Gazette, which is owned by The Washington Post. She served as a features editor and writer at both 34th Street Magazine and The Daily Pennsylvanian, the independent student newspaper for the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.[13]

Career

After college at the University of Pennsylvania, Parker interned at the Gaithersburg Gazette and reported on local government, including city planning meetings.

She worked as a researcher for Maureen Dowd, a columnist for The New York Times.[14]

She appeared and continues to appear on Washington Week on PBS, and she has also written for The New York Times Magazine. She covers many Republican Party candidates, elected officials, and topics as well as[15] [16] covering routine New York City topics[17] and the White House. She also covered Chelsea Clinton's wedding for The New York Times.[18]

Parker's photographs have appeared in Vanity Fair and her writing has appeared in other publications including The New York Sun, Glamour, The Huffington Post,[19] Washingtonian, Chicago Magazine and Life magazine.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Parker initially covered Jeb Bush's campaign before being moved to that of Donald Trump.[20]

She and her Post colleague Philip Rucker shared the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.[21]

She was part of the reporting team at The Washington Post that, with The New York Times team, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018 on coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[22] [23]

On September 7, 2019 Donald Trump called Parker and Rucker in a tweet "two nasty lightweight reporters" and called for banning them from the White House.[24] [25]

On November 20, 2019, Parker co-moderated the fifth Democratic Party presidential debate of the 2020 campaign, along with Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, and Kristen Welker.[8]

In January 2021, she became The Washington Post White House bureau chief.[26]

In 2021, Parker was a member of The Washington Post team that developed The Attack, a three-part online series that cited systematic security failures ahead of the January attack on the U. S. Capitol. The series won the 2021 George Polk National Reporting Award in Journalism.[27]

On May 9, 2022, she was part of The Washington Post team that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[28] [29]

In July 2022, Parker became senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post.[30]

Parker was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2024 Prize in National Reporting for its examination of the impact of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.[31] [32] [33]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2018/04/16/the-washington-post-wins-2018-pulitzer-prize-for-investigative-reporting-and-for-national-reporting/ The Washington Post wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and for National Reporting. August 16, 2018. Washington Post
  2. Web site: Ashley Parker . The Washington Post . William Lewis . 26 July 2024.
  3. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ashley-parker/1/3a1/110 LinkedIn profile page for Ashley Parker
  4. Web site: Ashley Parker - City Room Blog - The New York Times. 2020-11-09. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. 15 July 2011 . en.
  5. Web site: CPCW News. 2020-11-09. writing.upenn.edu.
  6. News: Ashley Parker, Michael Bender . The New York Times . June 17, 2018.
  7. News: Sherman . Jake . Palmer . Anna . Lippman . Daniel . 11 November 2018 . POLITICO Playbook: Dems lay out investigation priorities . Politico . Washington, D.C. . 10 May 2022.
  8. News: Kahn . Mattie . 20 November 2019 . Four Seasoned Journalists Will Moderate Tonight's Presidential Debate—They Happen to Be Women . Glamour . New York, New York . 10 May 2022.
  9. News: Tallman . Douglas . Democratic Debate Moderator is a Whitman Grad . Montgomery Community Media . November 21, 2019.
  10. Web site: Mighty Writers interview with Ashley Parker: Know Your (Grown Up) Mighty Writers: Ashley Parker, accessed 12/6/2014 . 2014-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150227201313/http://www.mightywriters.org/2009/09/know-your-grown-up-mighty-writers-ashley-parker/ . 2015-02-27 . dead .
  11. Web site: Wolk. Andy. Alumni Visitors Series. upenn. 11 April 2017.
  12. Web site: CPCW: Nora Magid Mentorship Prize. 2020-11-09. writing.upenn.edu.
  13. News: Penn alumna makes a name for herself in journalism . The Daily Pennsylvanian . February 10, 2011 . May 15, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150407230954/http://www.thedp.com/multimedia/18490 . April 7, 2015 . dead .
  14. Web site: The Washington Post hires Ashley Parker from The New York Times. Poynter. 21 November 2016 . en. 2018-08-28.
  15. Ashley Parker (July 13, 2012), "Cheneys Host Fund-Raiser for Romney in Wyoming" The New York Times "The Caucus" blog
  16. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashley-parker/ Posts published by Ashley Parker (419 Results)
  17. Parker, A. (May 19, 2011), "J.F.K. Bus Collision Kills One. The New York Times
  18. Parker, A. (July 24, 2010), "Clinton wedding is leaving some feeling left out", The New York Times
  19. Web site: Ashley Parker HuffPost. 2020-11-09. www.huffpost.com. en.
  20. News: Klomhaus . Sam . White House reporters speak to CMU class about their experiences . The Daily Sentinel . Seaton Publishing . October 8, 2021 . Grand Junction, Colorado . 2.
  21. Web site: Reporting on the Presidency 2017. Gerald R. Ford Foundation. 4 June 2018 . 28 August 2021.
  22. Web site: Honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917. 2020-11-09. Pulitzer Prizes. en.
  23. News: Parker . Ashley . Leonning . Carol D. . Rucker . Philip . Hamburger . Tom . Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer . 26 July 2024 . The Washington Post . July 31, 2021 . Washington, D.C..
  24. News: Donald Trump Lashes Out At Washington Post Reporters, Hints At White House Ban. September 7, 2019. Lee . Moran. Huffington Post. The Washington Post’s @PhilipRucker (Mr. Off the Record) & @AshleyRParker, two nasty lightweight reporters, shouldn’t even be allowed on the grounds of the White House because their reporting is so DISGUSTING & FAKE. .
  25. News: Sullivan . Claire . Jimemez . Gabby . Washington reporters talk about covering Trump . 25 July 2024 . The Eunice News . 14, Vol. 119 . Louisiana State Newspapers . February 16, 2023 . Eunice, Louisiana . 10.
  26. News: 19 January 2021 . The Washington Post announces 2021 White House team . The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. . 10 May 2022.
  27. . Long Island University announces winners of 2021 George Polk Awards in Journalism . Henderson, Tennessee . Editor & Publisher Magazine (E&P) . 2024-07-27.
  28. News: Edmonds . Rick . 9 May 2022 . An all-out reporting effort wins The Washington Post the Public Service Pulitzer for its January 6 coverage . Poynter . St. Petersburg, Florida . 10 May 2022.
  29. News: Parker . Ashley . Dawsey . Josh . Rucker . Philip . Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol . 26 July 2024 . The Washington Poat . January 11, 2021 . Washington, D.C..
  30. . Ashley Parker named senior national political correspondent . Washington, D.C. . The Washington Post . July 18, 2022 . 2024-07-26.
  31. Web site: The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting . The Pulitzer Prizes . Columbia University . 28 July 2024 . New York, NY.
  32. News: Frankel . Todd C. . Boberg . Shawn . Dawsey . Josh . Parker . Ashley . Horton . Alex . The gun that divides a nation . 28 July 2024 . The Washington Post . March 27, 2023 . Washington, D.C..
  33. News: Parker . Ashley . Dawsey . Josh . A Southern town embraces its AR-15 factory . 28 July 2024 . The Washington Post . March 27, 2023 . Washington, D.C..

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