Claire Shipman Biography
Claire Shipman is an American media personality serving as the senior national correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America. She previously served as NBC News’ White House correspondent.
Claire Shipman Age
Claire was born on October 4, 1962 in Washington, D.C
Claire Shipman Height
Claire stands at a height of 1.68m
Claire Shipman Education
Shipman attended Worthington High School in Worthington, Ohio. She 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.
Claire Shipman Parents
Shipman is the daughter of the late Christie Armstrong and Morgan Enlow Shipman. Her father, Morgan is a former Professor of Law at the Ohio State University. Her family was Methodist. No information about her siblings is available
Claire Shipman Husband
Claire is married to Jay Carney who served as the White House Press Secretary during the tenure of President Barack Obama. He was also the director of communications for Vice President Joe Biden. The duo met in the early 1990s when Claire was reporting for CNN and Jay was writing for Time. They got married in September 1998. Shipman was previously married to Steve Hurst, former CNN Moscow Bureau chief.
Claire Shipman Children
Claire and Jay have two kids, a daughter named Della Claire Carney born in 2002 and a son Hugo James Carney born in 2006.
Claire Shipman ABC News
Shipman is a contributor to ABC News’ “Good Morning America.” She joined the morning broadcast in May of 2001 and is based in the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau. Here, she has conducted in-depth interviews with former Vice President Dick Cheney, Queen Rania of Jordan, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shipman has also reported from Iraq, where she spent time with former U.S. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer. She was part of the team that covered the 2008 presidential election for ABC News.
Claire Shipman NBC News
Shipman served as NBC News’ White House correspondent. There, she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for “NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw” and the “Today” She reported on the 2000 presidential elections. Claire also conducted the first televised interview with then Vice-President Al Gore in the wake of his campaign finance troubles. She was the first to report that Gore would name Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate and, in December of 2000, she was the first to report on the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to allow a recount of contested ballots.
Claire Shipman CNN
Shipman joined CNN as a production assistant and an intern at CNN’s bureau in New York City. She spent a decade here covering the White House. Shipman previously spent five years at CNN’s Moscow bureau, where she won international praise for her coverage of Boris Yeltsin’s 1993 assault on the Russian Parliament building.
Shipman’s reporting from Moscow helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award. Her reporting on the aborted Soviet coup and 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union won the network a coveted Peabody Award. She received a DuPont Award and an Emmy Award as one of the key contributors to CNN’s coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student uprising. She is also the recipient of a DuPont Award for CNN’s coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Claire Shipman Books
Shipman is also an author and a public speaker. Along with her best friend, Katty Kay, she’s written three New York Times bestselling book, The Confidence Code, The Confidence Code for Girls, and Womenomics. Her books gives an insight to human mechanism of emotional planning and strategy to balance life.
Claire Shipman Salary
Her salary is unknown
Claire Shipman Net Worth
Claire has an estimated net worth of $3 million
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