Andrew Beatty (born 1980 in

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, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish journalist and editor. He is best known for his current role as the White House Correspondent for

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(AFP). He also serves as a regular pool reporter for the travels of both the president and vice president. Beatty previously was the AFP news editor for Southern Africa, an AFP war correspondent in North Africa, a Latin America correspondent for Reuters, and a Brussels-based correspondent for '' The Economist''. Raised in Tyrone and Antrim, Beatty attended

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and earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 2002. He also studied philosophy at the University of Salamanca and anthropology at

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. During his career, Beatty has covered notable events such as the Great Recession; the

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and its aftermath; the

2011 Libyan Civil War The First Libyan Civil War was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya that was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel groups that were seeking to oust his government. It erupted with the Liby ...

, where he covered the battles for

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and Tawergha where he was shot at but unharmed; the

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; the 2014 Lesotho coup and the 2016 U.S. presidential election and transition. A 2017 study found that Beatty was one of the journalists most frequently called on by

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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. He has been critical of both the Obama and Trump administrations' perceived inaccessibility and hostile attitude towards journalists. In June 2017, Beatty received viral attention for criticizing then-'' Breitbart'' writer Katie McHugh for tweeting what critics considered inflammatory comments about Muslims following multiple terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom.

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Twitter: Andrew Beatty

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beatty, Andrew 1980 births Living people Agence France-Presse journalists Alumni of Queen's University Belfast British reporters and correspondents British war correspondents Irish reporters and correspondents Irish war correspondents Journalists from Northern Ireland People from County Tyrone