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Andrea McCarren is a reporter at WUSA-TV, where she began her Washington, DC news career back in 1991. Andrea's reporting has earned the Edward R. Murrow Award, 8 Regional Emmys and dozens of local and national honors. In 2006, Andrea was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where she developed and taught the first broadcast journalism courses in Harvard history.
Andrea's career includes covering the Clinton White House for ABC News, where she frequently traveled with the President on Air Force One. She has served as a DC-based correspondent for NBC News, and has been a local reporter and news anchor in Miami, Portland, OR, Wichita, KS and Savannah, GA. Andrea has been reporting in Washington, DC for nearly two decades.
Andrea's award-winning investigative work has led to changes in state law, been shown in Congressional hearings and state legislative sessions, been used nationwide to train law enforcement and has even helped federal authorities capture a wanted fugitive.
She has traveled twice to El Salvador, documenting the MS-13 gang pipeline between the U.S. and Central America. She reported extensively on the flow of illegal immigrants from El Salvador to the Washington, DC area.
Andrea is a cum laude anthropology graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and the London School of Economics in England. She was honored with the KCBS-TV Fellowship for graduate study at the University of Southern California School of Journalism.
Andrea is married to Bill McCarren, the Executive Director of the National Press Club. The couple has three children.
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