Julie Mason | |
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 Mason in 2020 | |
| Born | December 11, 1966 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Lawrence Academy American University |
| Occupations |
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| Spouse | David Messina (m. 1996) |
Julie Mason (born December 11, 1966) [1] is a journalist and the host of "The Julie Mason Show" on SiriusXM radio's POTUS channel. Previously, she hosted "Julie Mason Mornings" and "The Press Pool" on POTUS. [2]
Mason was a White House correspondent for the Houston Chronicle , [3] Washington Examiner and Politico during the George W. Bush administration and the first term of Barack Obama's administration. She was with the Chronicle for twenty years. [4]
Mason's 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 2001 but was laid off in 2008 [1] while serving as the paper's White House correspondent. She worked at the Washington Examiner as a White House reporter until 2010, when she joined Politico's White House team. [5] [6] She joined SiriusXM in 2011. [7] [8] In 2014, Mason received the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in the Media for outstanding achievement as a radio talk show host. [4] She has been the secretary and a board member of the White House Correspondents' Association. [2] [4]
She has been noted for her impressions of notable figures such as Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and John Boehner. [9] [10] Readers of FishbowlDC in 2012 voted Mason "class clown" of the Washington press corps. [11]
One report said that Mason is known for her "bawdy personality and quick wit." [2] 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." [2]
In 2011, White House press secretary Jay Carney called one of Mason's stories "partisan, inflammatory and tendentious," and U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor 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. [12]
Mason grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, graduated from Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, and attended American University in Washington, D.C. [13]
In May 1996, she married David Messina of Houston in the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada, where a Presley impersonator walked her down the aisle and serenaded her afterward. [14] [15]
In 2011, she lived in Washington, in the Dupont-Logan-U Street-Columbia Heights area. [8]
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