Biography

James Carney was named TIME Deputy Washington Bureau Chief in June 2003. In that role, Carney helps manage the magazine’s Beltway coverage and writes about politics and national affairs. Carney has written about politics for TIME since 1993, most recently as TIME White House correspondent, and he has been at TIME since 1988.

Carney has written and reported about all facets of the Bush presidency, from his response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, to the war in Iraq. Carney was one of a handful of reporters who was on Air Force One with President Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, giving him a rare perspective at an historic moment.

Before coming to Washington in 1993 to report on the Clinton White House, he served as a correspondent in TIME's Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Prior to that he was TIME's Miami bureau chief.

Carney has also served as a special correspondent for CNN and makes frequent appearances as a political analyst on a variety of television programs. A native Virginian, Carney earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University in 1987. He and his wife Claire Shipman, a senior correspondent for ABC News, live in Washington, D.C. with their son.