PERSON: Jay Carney

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Senior Vice-president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs

James “Jay” Carney (born May 22, 1965) is President Barack Obama’s second White House Press Secretary. Prior to his appointment as Press Secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs, he was director of communications to Vice President Joe Biden. 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.<br> <br> Carney was raised in Northern Virginia, attended high school at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University, graduating cum laude, in 1987. He and his wife, Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News), live in Washington, D.C., with their son and daughter.<br> <br> 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. 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. 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.<br> <br> On December 15, 2008, Carney went from the private sector to public service as Director of Communications to Vice President Joe Biden. In January 2011, Carney was selected to become the Obama administration’s second White House Press Secretary. He was named the successor to previous White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs by White House Chief of Staff, William Daley. Carney was one of fourteen White House appointees announced by Daley on January 27. 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.On May 30, 2014, President Obama announced Carney would be succeeded by Josh Earnest.<br> <br> On February 2015 Amazon has fortified its executive ranks with the addition of Jay Carney, former White House press secretary, who reports to work on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs, including public relations and public policy.<br> <br> <br> <br> — Wikipedia