Julie Mason
Julie Mason is a journalist and the host of "The Press Pool" on SiriusXM radio's POTUS channel.[1]
She has been a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner, mostly during the George W. Bush administration, after which she covered Washington, D.C., for the Houston Chronicle.[2] She was with the Chronicle for twenty years.[3]
Mason grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, graduated from Lawrence Academy and attended American University in the 1980s. Her first job was as a clerk in the Washington bureau of the Dallas Morning News, and In 1988 she went to Texas to work as a reporter with the Houston Chronicle. She was transferred to the newspaper's Washington bureau in 1988 but was laid off in 2009, and then worked at the Washington Examiner until 2012 when she went to SiriusXM.[4] She has also been White House reporter at Politico.[3][5]
In 2014, Mason received the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in the Media for outstanding achievement as a radio talk show host.[3] She has been secretary and board member of the White House Correspondents' Association.[1][3]
She has been noted for her impressions of notable figures such as Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and John Boehner.[2]
One report said that Mason is known for her "bawdy personality and quick wit."[1] Television commentator Bill O'Reilly in 2014 called her a "loon" because, according to him, she suggested that he and Glenn Beck may have damaged the Fox News "brand."[1]
In 2011, White House press secretary Jay Carney called one of Mason's stories "partisan, inflammatory and tendentious," and National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Victor sent her an e-mail that included an animated picture of a crying mime, a "visual suggestion that she was whining," according to Washington Post columnist Paul Farhi.[6]
She lives in Washington, in the Dupont-Logan-U Street-Columbia Heights area.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Peter Ogburn, "Behind the Scenes With the Bawdy Julie Mason," FishbowlDC, April 26, 2012
- ^ a b T.J. Clemente, "Julie Mason Shining Brightly by the Press Pool," East Hampton Patch, March 5, 2016
- ^ a b c d http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/209091-julie-mason-a-clash-fan-who-wants-to-intew-obama-over Judy Kurtz, "A Clash fan who wants to interview Obama over ‘strong cocktails,’ The Hill, June 12, 2014]
- ^ a b Michelle Lancaster, "Meet Julie Mason, White House Correspondent, Neighbor," Borderstan, January 12, 2011
- ^ Betsy Rothstein, "The Mirror Questionnaire With SiriusXM's Julie Mason," The Daily Caller, February 11, 2014
- ^ Paul Farhi, "Journalists Complain the White House Press Office Has Become Overly Combative," The Washington Post, December 22, 2011