Jay Carney

Jay Carney

29th White House Press Secretary
Incumbent
Assumed office February 11, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Jennifer Psaki
Preceded by	Robert Gibbs
Personal details
Born	James Carney (1965-05-22) May 22, 1965 (age 47) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Claire Shipman
Children	2
Alma mater	Yale University
Profession	Journalist
Website	White House Briefing Room

James "Jay" Carney (born May 22, 1965) is President Barack Obama's second White House Press Secretary.^[1] Prior to his appointment as Press Secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs, he was director of communications to Vice President Joe Biden.^[2] Carney previously served as Washington Bureau Chief for Time magazine, a post he held from September 2005 until December 2008, and as a regular contributor in the "roundtable" segment of ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Personal life and education

Carney was raised in Northern Virginia, attended high school at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey,^[3] and earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University, graduating cum laude, in 1987.^[4] He and his wife, Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News)^[4], live in Washington, D.C., with their son and daughter.

Journalism career

After being hired as a reporter for The Miami Herald in 1987, Carney joined Time magazine as its Miami Bureau Chief in 1989. Carney worked as a correspondent in Time's Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the U.S.S.R.. He came to Washington in 1993 to report on the Bill Clinton White House.^[4]

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.^[4] Carney later won the 2003 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.

Carney was Time's Washington Bureau Deputy Chief from 2003 to 2005, and Chief from September 2005 until December 2008. He was assigned to the magazine’s Washington Bureau in that tenure while also being able to write about politics and national affairs. Carney has also worked for CNN (another TIME Warner division) as a special correspondent.

Carney was one of the early mainstream journalists to take up the medium of blogging.

Work in Obama administration

Jay Carney (middle right) in a White House staff meeting in the Oval Office, May 11, 2011

On December 15, 2008, Carney went from the private sector to public service as Director of Communications to Vice President Joe Biden.^[2]^[5]

In January 2011, Carney was selected to become the Obama administration's second White House Press Secretary.^[1] He was named the successor to previous White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs by White House Chief of Staff, William Daley.^[6]^[7] Carney was one of fourteen White House appointees announced by Daley on January 27.^[7]

He meets with the president daily, and can have four or five meetings a day to work on how to present ideas.

During a March 13, 2012, press briefing he revealed that his favorite band is Guided by Voices.^[8]^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b Henry, Ed (January 27, 2011). "Jay Carney named White House press secretary". CNN. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/27/henry-in-the-house-obama-expected-to-name-carney-next-press-secretary/. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Biden TIME". Time. December 15, 2008. http://thepage.time.com/2008/12/15/biden-time/. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
^ "Jay Carney ’83 Named White House Personal Minister works to rid Obama of his sins.". The Lawrenceville School. January 28, 2011. http://www2.lawrenceville.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=565063. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Connolly, Katie (January 28, 2011). "James Carney: Profile of White House press secretary". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12304141. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
^ Calderone, Michael (December 15, 2008). "Stengel defends Carney's decision". Politico. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16612.html. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
^ Mason, Jeff; Holland, Steve (January 27, 2011). "Former reporter Carney next White House spokesman". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/us-obama-spokesman-idUSTRE70Q8HR20110128. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Knoller, Mark (January 27, 2011). "Daley, Not Obama, Announces new Press Secretary, Aides". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20029854-503544.html. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=58Pzc0pamd8#t=32s
^ Zaleski, Luke. "Guided By Nation: Jay Carney Knows His Rock 'N' Roll". Death Race 2012: GQ on Politics. GQ. http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/03/guided-by-nation-jay-carney-knows-his-rock-n-roll.html.

External links

Jay Carney at WhoRunsGov at The Washington Post
Appearances on C-SPAN
Jay Carney on Charlie Rose

Political offices
Preceded by Robert Gibbs	White House Press Secretary 2011–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Barack Obama's Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Jacob Lew Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012- 2009-2011 2011-	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor	Jim Jones Tom Donilon Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough	2009–2010 2010- 2009–2010 2010-
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Senior Advisor to the President Deputy Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco David Axelrod David Plouffe Stephanie Cutter Pete Rouse	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011- 2011- 2009-	Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications	Douglas Lute^† Ben Rhodes	2009– 2009–
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement	Valerie Jarrett	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	John O. Brennan	2009–
Director of Public Engagement	Christina Tchen Jon Carson	2009–2011 2011--	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009-2010 2011-
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Cecilia Muñoz	2009–	White House Communications Director	Daniel Pfeiffer	2009-
Director, National Economic Council	Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling	2009–2010 2011-	Deputy White House Communications Director White House Press Secretary	Jennifer Psaki Robert Gibbs Jay Carney	2009– 2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Diana Farrell	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary	Bill Burton	2009–2011
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Jason Furman Brian Deese	2009– 2011-	Director of Special Projects	Stephanie Cutter	2010-2011
Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Paul Volcker	2009–	Director of Speechwriting	Jon Favreau	2009–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee	2009–2010 2010-	White House Counsel Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011-
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011-	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski	2009–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^†	2009–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag Jacob Lew	2009–2010 2010–2012	Director, Office of Political Affairs Chief Technology Officer	Patrick Gaspard Aneesh Chopra Todd Park	2009–2011 2009–2012 2012-
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–	Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Steven VanRoekel Nancy Hogan	2011– 2010–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom*	2010–2010 2011-	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle Crutchfield George D. Mulligan, Jr.	2009–2011 2011- 2009–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk	2009–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu	2009–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes	2009–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith	2009–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–2011 2011-	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown	2009–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois	2009–	Director, Office of Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley	2009–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy DeParle	2009–2011	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez	2009–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love	2009–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–2011	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker	2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal	2009–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–
Director, Council on Environmental Quality Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Nancy Sutley Jeffrey Crowley	2009– 2009–	Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–2010 2011-
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske	2009–	White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard	2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–
Director, Office of Urban Affairs Policy	Adolfo Carrión, Jr.	2009–	Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

^*Senate-confirmation pending. ^†Remained from previous administration (s).

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Joe Biden's Office of the Vice President

Position	Appointee	Position	Appointee
Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Bruce Reed	Chief of Staff to the Second Lady	Catherine Russell
Counsel to the Vice President	Cynthia Hogan	Director of Administration for the Office of the Vice President	Moises Vela
Counselor to the Vice President	Mike Donilon	Domestic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Terrell McSweeny
Assistant to the Vice President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison	Evan Ryan	Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Jared Bernstein
Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Communications	Jay Carney	Press Secretary to the Vice President	Elizabeth Alexander
Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Alan Hoffman	Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President	Annie Tomasini
Deputy National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Brian McKeon	Director of Legislative Affairs	Sudafi Henry
Residence Manager and Social Secretary for the Vice President and Second Lady	Carlos Elizondo	Director of Communications for the Second Lady	Courtney O’Donnell
National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Tony Blinken