Perhaps no one is better equipped to survey today’s current events both at home and abroad than Jay Carney.
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Jay Carney
White House Press Secretary (2011-2014)
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He joined TIME as its Miami bureau chief the following year and subsequently worked as a correspondent in TIME‘s Moscow bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. He came to Washington in 1993 to report on the Bill Clinton White House. He has written and reported about the presidency of George W. Bush, and was one of a handful of reporters who were aboard Air Force One with President Bush on September 11, 2001. Carney later won the 2003 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. In 2003, he was appointed TIME’s Washington bureau deputy chief and promoted in September 2005 to the bureau chief while continuing to write about politics and national affairs. He also worked for CNN as a special correspondent and was a regular contributor to the “roundtable” segment of ABC News’ This Week. In January, 2009 Carney went from the private sector to public service as director of communications for Vice President Joe Biden. On January 27, 2011, Carney was selected by President Barack Obama to become White House press secretary, where he served until his departure in late June 2014. Today he serves as senior vice president for worldwide corporate affairs for Amazon.
