Caren Bohan is an American

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currently servicing as the Editor-in-Chief of

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with broad experience covering Wall Street and Washington. Bohan formerly served as the

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from 2011 to 2012 and current member of the Gridiron Club. She covered the

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from 2003 to 2012 and was a lead correspondent for

Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign Barack Obama, then junior United States senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for president of the United States on February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois. After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 2008, ...

Personal

Bohan was born in

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. She is married and has two children.

Education

She graduated from Dover-Sherborn high school, obtained her B.A. in English Literature from

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in Montreal and later her master's degree in journalism from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

Career

Bohan began her career in journalism at

Tab Communications Tab Communications Inc. (also called Tabloid Newspaper Publishers), based first in Newton, Massachusetts, United States, then in nearby Needham, was a weekly newspaper publisher in Greater Boston before being bought by Fidelity Investments in 19 ...

in metropolitan Boston, covering government, taxes, crime and other local matters. During graduate school, she interned with Reuters in Washington, and after graduating, she was hired by Reuters in New York to write about corporate news. Later she covered bonds, gold and financial markets on Wall Street, serving a stint as assistant desk editor. Following several promotions, Bohan moved to Washington to cover U.S. economic data, the Federal Reserve and economic policy. She was promoted to the White House beat in 2003 and covered the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, scoring interviews with both men. She was also one of the first journalists to report that Ben Bernanke would become chairman of the Federal Reserve. As White House correspondent Bohan traveled to dozens of countries, including Afghanistan, and interviewed scores of world leaders. in 2011–2012, she was voted by her peers to be president of the White House Correspondents Association. She hosted the annual dinner with President Obama and chose late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel as the event's comedian. After working at Reuters for more than two decades, Bohan accepted an offer to become a senior editor at Atlantic Media's

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. She led the digital team's Washington coverage and later was elevated to Managing Editor for Policy. Following her stint at National Journal, Bohan returned to Reuters as senior domestic policy correspondent to cover Congress and work on special enterprise assignments. She was promoted to senior editor in charge of domestic policy, Congress and the White House ahead of the 2016 U.S. elections, managing a large team of reporters. In 2018, Bohan was hired by Gannett's

as Washington editor.

Membership

Bohan is a member of the

Gridiron Club The Gridiron Club is the oldest and most selective journalistic organization in Washington, D.C. History :"an elitist social club of sixty print journalists" — Hedrick Smith, ''Power Game: How Washington Works'' February 1988 Random House ...

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