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| Born | Margaret Bresnahan November 29[1][2] |
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| Awards | Belva Ann Lockwood Award (2011) |
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Margaret Carlson is an American journalist, political pundit, and an opinioncolumnist forBloomberg News. She is known for being the first female columnist forTime magazine. She was a regular panelist forCNN'sCapital Gang from 1992 until its cancellation in 2005.
Margaret Carlson was born Margaret Bresnahan to James Francis Xavier Bresnahan and Mary Catherine McCreary Bresnahan. She graduated fromBishop McDevitt High School inHarrisburg,Pennsylvania.
Carlson earned a B.A. degree in English fromPenn State University, then worked for several years before earning aJ.D. degree fromGeorge Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.
Carlson has one daughter, Courtney Anne Carlson. She also has 3 grandchildren.
Carlson spent a year after college working at theU.S. Department of Labor and three other agencies. She subsequently taught third grade inWatts,Los Angeles,California, before joiningNader's raiders. Afterlaw school, she was briefly aFederal Trade Commission lawyer underMichael Pertschuk, until theCarter administration ended.[3][11]
Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief forEsquire, editor of the short-livedWashington Weekly, and was a reporter and member of the editorial staff for the Washington-based national weekly newspaper "Legal Times." She wasmanaging editor atThe New Republic until January 1988, when she joinedTime magazine. In 1994, she became the first female columnist in the magazine's history. Carlson covered fourpresidential elections forTime, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg News where she writes a column.
AtCNN she was a commentator onInside Politics and, for 15 years, a panelist onThe Capital Gang. She writes a weekly column forThe Daily Beast.
margaret carlson courtney.
The George Washington Law Alumni Association and the Law Association for Women (LAW) recognized renowned journalist Margaret Carlson, J.D. '73, with the Belva Ann Lockwood Award, which celebrates the enduring legacy of women's rights. Carlson writes a weekly column on politics for Bloomberg News, is the Washington editor of The Week, is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, and is a frequent commentator on MSNBC. She also holds the distinction of being the first female columnist for TIME magazine.
Margaret Carlson '66 ... was Margaret Bresnahan as a Penn State undergrad ...
Until I was out of college, I knew the hospitality industry from the back stairs only; I would meet my grandmother after her shift as a maid at the Hotel Washington.
Courtney Anne Carlson, the daughter of Margaret Carlson and Eugene Carlson, both of Washington, was married there yesterday to David Paul Yarkin, the son of Reesa and Larry Yarkin of Framingham, Mass. JudgeMarjorie O. Rendell of the FederalCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia officiated at the home ofKatharine Graham, the former publisher ofThe Washington Post, a family friend.
Ms. Carlson, 26, is keeping her name.
native of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
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