Ashley Parker
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Ashley R. Parker[1] (born 1982)[2][3] is an American journalist and a Washington-based[4] politics reporter[5] for The New York Times (since 2011) and photojournalist. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, where she grew up.[6]
She appears occasionally on Gwen Ifill's Washington Week in Review on PBS, and she has also written for The New York Times Magazine. She covers many Republican Party candidates, elected officials, and topics. [7][8][9][citation needed] She also covers routine New York City topics[10] and the White House. She also covered Chelsea Clinton's wedding for the New York Times.[11]
Parker's photographs have appeared in Vanity Fair, and her writing has appeared in other publications including The New York Sun, Glamour, The Huffington Post,[12] Washingtonian, Chicago Magazine, and Life magazine.
She has also worked as a researcher for Maureen Dowd, a columnist for The New York Times.
Except during her college years and a few years of her work with The New York Times, she has lived in Bethesda, Maryland, where she was born and where her immediate family still resides.[13]
Education
Parker is a Bethesda native. She was graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, but she spent part of her junior year at La Universidad de Sevilla in Spain and is nearly-fluent in Spanish.
In 2005, she received a bachelor's degree in English and communications from the University of Pennsylvania,[14] where she had been a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and where, during her senior year, she was awarded the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize in writing.[15] Ashley Parker also completed internships with the New York Sun and the Gaithersburg Gazette, which is owned by the Washington Post, and has served as features editor and writer at both 34th Street and the Daily Pennsylvanian, the independent student newspaper for the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.[16][17]
Career
After college at University of Pennsylvania, Parker interned at the Gaithersburg Gazette and reported on local government, including city planning meetings.
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ Ashley R. Parker's Twitter account page
- ↑ BeenVerified.com profile for Ashley R. Parker: Could be between 1976 and 1983
- ↑ PeopleFinders profile for Ashley R. Parker
- ↑ LinkedIn profile page for Ashley Parker, NY Times political journalist
- ↑ City Burroughs Blog postings by Ashley Parker
- ↑ Nora Magid Mentorship Prize Winner Announced - Ashley Parker, includes short minibio
- ↑ Ashley Parker, "Cheneys Host Fund-Raiser for Romney in Wyoming," New York Times "The Caucus" blog, July 13, 2012
- ↑ Ashley Parker, "Cheneys Host Fund-Raiser for Romney in Wyoming," New York Times "The Caucus" blog, July 13, 2012
- ↑ Posts published by Ashley Parker (419 Results) The New York Times, The Politics an Government Blog of The New York Times, accessed 12/6/2014
- ↑ Parker, A. J.F.K. Bus Bollision Kills One. May 19, 2011, New York Times
- ↑ Parker, A., "Clinton wedding is leaving some feeling left out", New York Times, World, Saturday July 24, 2010
- ↑ Articles by Ashley Parker on The Huffington Post
- ↑ ZoomInfo profile of Ashley Parker
- ↑ Mighty Writers interview with Ashley Parker: Know Your (Grown Up) Mighty Writers: Ashley Parker, accessed 12/6/2014
- ↑ Nora Magid Mentorship Prize
- ↑ Penn alumna makes a name for herself in journalism, the Daily Pennsylvanian, 02/10/11
- ↑ Penn alumna makes a name for herself in journalism, the Daily Pennsylvanian, 02/10/11
