Claire Shipman is an American television
journalist
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, currently the senior national correspondent for
ABC
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's ''
Good Morning America''. She is married to
Jay Carney
James Ferguson 'Jay' Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American public relations officer, political advisor and journalist who has served as Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022, and the United States Whit ...
, President
Barack Obama
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's former
White House Press Secretary. She is also Vice Chair of the
Board of Trustees of Columbia University.
Life and career
Shipman, born October 4, 1962, in Washington, D.C., is the daughter of the late Christie (Armstrong) and Morgan Enlow Shipman, Professor of Law at The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law.
> She graduated from
Worthington High School in
Worthington, Ohio
Worthington is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, and is a northern suburb of Columbus. The population in the 2020 Census was 14,786. The city was founded in 1803 by the Scioto Company led by James Kilbourne, who was later elected to ...
, in 1980. In 2006, she was recognized by Worthington Schools as a Distinguished Alumna during Convocation. She is a 1986 graduate of
Columbia College of Columbia University
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and also holds a
master's degree
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School of International and Public Affairs
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.
She is divorced from former
CNN
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Moscow bureau chief Steve Hurst. She and her second husband,
Jay Carney
James Ferguson 'Jay' Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American public relations officer, political advisor and journalist who has served as Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022, and the United States Whit ...
, have a son and daughter. Carney was the White House press secretary from January 27, 2011, to June 20, 2014. She claims that her husband gave her no indication that the secret operation that led to the
killing of Osama bin Laden
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was under way in Pakistan.
Claire Shipman is a journalist, author and public speaker. She has written three New York Times bestselling books, ''The Confidence Code'', ''The Confidence Code for Girls'', and ''Womenomics''. Her co-author on all three has been the BBC's Katty Kay.
Shipman was with ABC News for 15 years, reporting on politics, international affairs to social issues. Before moving to ABC, she covered the White House and the Clinton administration for NBC news. Shipman also spent a decade at CNN, where she covered the White House, and spent five years at CNN’s Moscow bureau covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. She’s received numerous awards for her reporting, including a Peabody, a DuPont and an Emmy. Shipman holds a graduate degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Bachelors of Arts in Russian Studies from Columbia College.
On June 2, 2009,
HarperCollins
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published ''
Womenomics'', a book written by Shipman and
BBC World News America
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correspondent
Katty Kay
Katherine "Katty" Kay (born 14 November 1964) is a British-Swiss journalist, author and broadcaster. She presented BBC World News America and, with Christian Fraser, hosted ''Beyond 100 Days'' on BBC Four, BBC News and BBC World News. She has an ...
exploring the redefinition of success for working women based on recent trends in the value of women to the business world.
In March 2022, the Institute on Holistic Wealth, Founded By Best-Selling Author Keisha Blair, Announced that Claire Shipman, was selected to be a Holistic Wealth Trailblazer, as part of the celebration of the release of Keisha Blair’s book Holistic Wealth Expanded and Updated.
Recognition
Shipman received a
Peabody Award for her work covering the
1991 Soviet coup and the subsequent
dissolution of the Soviet Union.
References
External links
ABCNews biography*
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American television reporters and correspondents
Living people
American women television journalists
ABC News personalities
Peabody Award winners
People from Worthington, Ohio
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American journalists
1962 births
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Journalists from Ohio
Journalists from Washington, D.C.
21st-century American women
20th-century American women