Press secretary jay carney biography
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Get To Know Jay Carney
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If reports are true, the White House will announce tomorrow that Jay Carney, the former Time magazine Washington bureau chief and current spokesman for the vice president, will be named as the incoming press secretary, taking over for Robert Gibbs.
We won’t judge before we see the man in the job, but you can bet the choice is going to be red meat to right-wingers who rail on MSM bias. Want evidence the MSM is in the Democratic Party’s pocket? Look whom the party appoints as its highest-level spokesperson.
Carney had worked at Time since 1988, and covered Washington for the magazine from 1993, before taking the job with Biden in 2009. You can see his Time bio here. Carney was a respected, non-partisan journalist—Joe Klein told Politico upon his appointment to Biden’s office, “I didn’t even know Jay was a Democrat.”
Still, while Politico reported then
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James Carney: Profile of White House press secretary
James "Jay" Carney once held one of the most enviable jobs in the Washington media: bureau chief for the award-winning staple of American journalism, Time magazine.
Soon, he will hold one of the most scrutinized jobs in the country: vit House press secretary.
The jump from reporter to spokesman isn't such an unusual one.
But to go from journalist to one of the world's most watched media spokesman in just over two years is quite a feat - especially after Mr Carney led a team of Time reporters who covered the Obama presidential campaign in 2008.
The telegenic Mr Carney makes the move after serving as US Vice-President Joseph Biden's spokesman since just after the November 2008 election.
He quickly earned the respect of both the Washington press corps - many of whom he has long-standing relationships with - and the Obama administration.
When Robert Gibbs announced his departure from the brev, Mr
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Jay Carney
Former White House Press Secretary
Jay Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American public relations officer, political advisor, and journalist who served as the United States' White House Press Secretary from 2011 to 2014, and Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been Global Head of Policy and Communications at Airbnb.
As President Barack Obama's chief spokesman for over three years, he remains the longest serving White House Press Secretary of the 21st century. During the first two years of the Obama administration, Carney was director of communications for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Prior to his government service, Carney worked for 20 years at Time Magazine, and was the magazine's Washington bureau chief from 2005 to 2008. As a Washington-based reporter, Carney appeared frequently on various political talk shows, including This Week with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News.