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.[2]

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][2][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.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Biography". Northwest Alcohol Conference. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Andrea McCarren | Reporter". WUSA9. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
  3. 1 2 McCarren, Andrew (Summer 2007). "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.'". Nieman Reports. Archived from the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Tucker, Neely (January 24, 2009). "Citing Economy, WJLA Fires 26 Staffers". Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "WUSA's McCarren Named Merrill Commencement Speaker". Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
  6. ↑ "NewsRoomAmerica.com - Andrea McCarren wins new honors at WUSA9". www.newsroomamerica.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
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