Jay Carney To Leave Time, Will Work For Joe Biden
Politico and FishbowlDC both report that TIME's Washington Bureau Chief Jay Carney will be leaving the magazine. The 20-year TIME veteran "is moving on to a new challenge," Managing Editor Rick Stengel wrote to employees in a memo Monday morning. Carney's future endeavor was not explained, but Stengel promises details shortly. Full memo below:
After twenty extraordinary years at TIME, Jay Carney is moving on to a new challenge. Jay has been pretty much everywhere for us. He started as Miami bureau chief and then became a correspondent in Moscow before landing in Washington and eventually becoming bureau chief. He was in Havana when Mikhail Gorbachev first visited in 1989; he was on the first plane of journalists into Panama for the U.S. invasion that same year; in 1991, he was at the television tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, when Soviet tanks rolled in, and in Red Square when they rolled again during the failed coup that led to the Soviet Union's demise. On 9/11, he was aboard Air Force One with President Bush. He had two stints covering the White House and excelled in his coverage of the McCain 2000 campaign and of the Clinton impeachment. As a reporter and as bureau chief, he always fought for fairness and balance in our coverage whether it was of the left or the right. He is a superb journalist, an exemplary bureau chief and he also happens to be one of the pleasantest and most decent guys in our business. We wish him well in his new endeavors, which we will hear about shortly.
Update: Carney's colleague Mark Halperin reports that Carney will be working as Joe Biden's director of communications.
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First Posted: 12-15-08 01:07 PM | Updated: 01-15-09 05:12 AM