Shannon Pettypiece is an American print and broadcast

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. She is currently Senior White House Correspondent for

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Early life

Pettypiece grew up in

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, where she attended

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. At age 5, she began showing horses competitively and was involved in 4-H as well as her high school and college equestrian teams. She attended the

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where she was a reporter and editor at ''

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'', the university's student-run newspaper. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in political science with a focus on Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a woodworker.

Journalism career

Pettypiece's first journalism job was as an intern for ''

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'' in Washington, D.C. She later worked as a stringer for ''The New York Times'' in Detroit. She has covered local government for ''

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'' and health care and technology for Crain's Cleveland Business. In 2006, she joined ''Bloomberg News'' in Washington covering the Food and Drug Administration. She later moved to New York where she took over coverage of the pharmaceutical industry. She has also been a contributor to ''

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''. While at Bloomberg, she interviewed the chief executives of the world's largest health care companies, including Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, and Eli Lilly. Her reporting has taken her to China, where she went inside Chinese hospitals, research labs, and homes for a four-part series on the country's evolving health care system. In 2010, she became a correspondent for

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, covering the healthcare industry. As of July 3, 2019, she is a senior White House reporter for

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Digital.

References

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