Jay Carney
| Jay Carney | |
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| 28th White House Press Secretary | |
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In office February 11, 2011 – June 20, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Josh Earnest |
| Preceded by | Robert Gibbs |
| Succeeded by | Josh Earnest |
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James Carney May 22, 1965 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Claire Shipman (2001–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Yale University (BA) |
James "Jay" Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American journalist.
Carney has worked for Amazon.com, Inc. as the senior vice president of worldwide corporate affairs, since March 2, 2015.
From 2014 to 2015 he worked as a senior political analyst at CNN. He served as White House press secretary from 2011 to 2014, and his resignation was accepted by President Barack Obama on May 30, 2014. From 2008 to 2011 he was director of communications for Vice President Joe Biden. He worked as the Time Magazine Washington bureau chief from 2005 to 2008 and was a regular contributor in the "roundtable" segment of This Week with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News.
Carney was raised in Northern Virginia, attended high school at The Lawrenceville School, a college preparatory boarding school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in Russian and Eastern European studies, from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1987.
After working as a reporter for The Miami Herald, since 1987, Carney joined Time magazine as the Miami bureau chief, in 1989. He worked as a correspondent in Time's Moscow bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the U.S.S.R.. He transferred to Washington, D.C., in 1993, to report on the Bill Clinton White House. He was Time magazine's Washington bureau deputy chief, from 2003 to 2005 and the bureau chief, from September 2005, until December 2008.
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