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Andrea Stone

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Andrea Stone is an American journalist. She was a long-time correspondent for USA Today.

Early life and education

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From the Bronx, New York City,[1] she graduated the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[2]

Career

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First she worked for newspapers in Illinois, Florida, and New York, including the Riverdale Press,[1] and freelanced for Newsweek, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, The Gainesville Sun. She also worked with Gannett News Service in Arlington, Virginia.[3] She also worked as bureau chief for Washington for AOL News.[4]

In 1985 she was hired by USA Today and worked there for over 25 years.[3] [5] In 2001, The Register criticized her piece on cyber-war as reading like government propaganda.[6] In 2002, she was told by the Huffington Post to delete a Facebook post asking if Nazis felt "more comfortable" with the GOP than other parties, which was covered in Forbes.[7] Of other articles she's written for USA Today,[8] she covered topics like 9/11 at the Pentagon.[9][10]

In 2011, she was hired by Huffington Post Media as Senior National Correspondent in politics,[11] and that year was mentioned at the National Press Club by Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong.[12]

In April 2013, she was hired as a senior online executive producer of Al Jazeera America.[13][14][15]

By 2015, she had worked as a freelancer for National Geographic and other publications.[1] She had also taught as an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, D.C.[1] In 2015, she became director of career services for the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.[1] She retired in June 2019.[citation needed]

Stone has appeared on CNN[16] and C-SPAN.[17] She co-authored "Desert Warriors: Men and Women Who Won the Persian Gulf War."[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Journalist Andrea Stone Named Career Services Director". 4 February 2015.
  2. ^ [1] Archived March 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b "Andrea Stone". 27 January 2012.
  4. ^ "Al Jazeera America hires online producers". Politico. 18 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Andrea Stone".
  6. ^ "USA Today as DoD cyber-war mouthpiece".
  7. ^ "Huffpo Politics Reporter Told to Delete Facebook Post 'Just Asking' if GOP Embraces Nazis". Forbes.
  8. ^ "Independence in Gaza will come with risks". usatoday.com.
  9. ^ "Pentagon searchers encounter grisly scenes". usatoday.com.
  10. ^ "Usa Today". Content.usatoday.com. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
  11. ^ "Arianna Has Poached 11 More Writers, Including A Former NYT Culture Editor". Business Insider. 14 March 2011.
  12. ^ [2] Archived July 23, 2012, at archive.today
  13. ^ "Al Jazeera America: Andrea Stone, Tony Karon to Oversee Digital". 18 April 2013.
  14. ^ "Andrea Stone and Tony Karon to Join Al Jazeera America". aljazeera.com.
  15. ^ "News & latest headlines from AOL". Aolnews.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-01. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
  16. ^ "Archived copy". edition.cnn.hu. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. ^ "Homosexuals Military". C-SPAN.org.
  18. ^ Desert Warriors: Men and Women Who Won the Persian Gulf War: USA Today: 9780671748753. Pocket Books. 1991. ISBN 0671748750.
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