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Candy Crowley is CNN's award-winning senior political correspondent
and anchor of "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". She is based in
the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau. Crowley will take the reins of
State of the Union beginning Sunday, Feb.7 to continue the tradition of
hosting a political hour of newsmaker interviews along with analysis of
the week’s most important issues. In her role as senior political
correspondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including
presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major
legislative developments on Capitol Hill.
Crowley’s assignments have taken her to all 50 states and around
the world. As a member of the Peabody Award-winning “Best Political
Team on Television,” she played a pivotal role in CNN’s America Votes
2008 coverage, traveling to both conventions, and every debate and
additional stops along the campaign trail. Crowley earned a prestigious
Gracie Allen Award in 2009 for coverage of Hillary Clinton’s bid for
the White House. She also was part of the network’s Emmy award-winning
2006 mid-term election coverage.
She has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan,
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole,
Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan
and Paul Tsongas, among others. Since the presidential nomination of
Jimmy Carter, she has covered all but one of the national political
conventions. She was also granted an exclusive sit-down interview with
President George W. Bush days before he left office.
Among her most vivid memories as a reporter, Crowley counts the
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast; the impeachment
trial of President Clinton; election night 2000; the ceremonies marking
the 40th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy; Ronald
Reagan's trips to China, Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen; the night the
United States bombed Libya; and the terrorist bombing of the U.S.
Marine barracks in Beirut.
Crowley began her broadcast journalism career in Washington,
D.C., as a newsroom assistant for Metromedia radio station WASH. She
has served as an anchor for Mutual Broadcasting and as a general
assignment and White House correspondent for the Associated Press,
where she covered most of the Reagan era before moving on to NBC-TV to
become a general assignment correspondent in NBC's Washington bureau.
In 2005, Crowley was honored with the Joan Shorenstein Barone
Award for excellence in journalism for her reporting on the 2004
presidential election. In 2004, Crowley won the Gracie Allen Award in
the National News Story-Series category for "War Stories" and a
National Headliner and a Cine award for "Fit to Kill." In 2003, Crowley
won an Emmy for her work on CNN Presents' "Enemy Within." She won the
1999 DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for her coverage of
the impeachment and trial of President Bill Clinton. She won the 2003
and 1998 Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress from the
National Press Foundation and the 1997 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award
for Excellence in Journalism for her coverage of Bob Dole's campaign
for the presidency. She received the Associated Press Broadcasters'
Award for spot news reporting for her coverage of the Reagan campaign,
as well as the AP Award for in-depth coverage of the 1980 Reagan
campaign. Her reporting on more than a dozen 1992 U.S. Senate campaigns
was runner-up for the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for Outstanding
Journalism. Crowley also won the Columbia University's Armstrong Award
for Freedom is My Woman, a documentary on a prison cellblock takeover.
Crowley earned a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College.