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

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Early life and education

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

Career

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 . [3] In 2001, The Register criticized her piece on cyber-war as reading like government propaganda. [5] 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. [6] Of other articles she's written for USA Today, [7] she covered topics like 9/11 at the Pentagon. [8] [9]

In 2011, she was hired by Huffington Post Media as Senior National Correspondent in politics, [10] and that year was mentioned at the National Press Club by Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong. [11]

In April 2013, she was hired as a senior online executive producer of Al Jazeera America. [12] [13] [14]

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 [15] and C-SPAN. [16] She co-authored "Desert Warriors: Men and Women Who Won the Persian Gulf War." [17]

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