Julie Mason

Julie Mason (born around 1966)[1] is a journalist and the host of "Julie Mason Mornings" and past host of "The Press Pool" on SiriusXM radio's POTUS channel.[2]

Julie Mason in 2020

Professional life

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]

Personal life

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]

Mason and Alper Tunga Yakupoglu were married in October 2019 in the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.[16]

Mason is a reader of Tarot cards.[17]

References
  1. "American Journalism Review". ajrarchive.org. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  2. Peter Ogburn, "Behind the Scenes With the Bawdy Julie Mason," FishbowlDC, April 26, 2012
  3. Mason, Julie. "Julie Mason on about.me". about.me. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  4. Judy Kurtz, "A Clash fan who wants to interview Obama over ‘strong cocktails,’ The Hill, June 12, 2014
  5. "Julie Mason is Getting Sirius". Borderstan. 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  6. "Behind the Scenes With the Bawdy Julie Mason". Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  7. "Top White House reporter Julie Mason heading to radio | Planet Washington blog". blogs.mcclatchydc.com. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  8. Michelle Lancaster, "Meet Julie Mason, White House Correspondent, Neighbor," Borderstan, January 12, 2011
  9. T.J. Clemente, "Julie Mason Shining Brightly by the Press Pool," East Hampton Patch, March 5, 2016
  10. "An Elizabeth Warren impersonation you need to hear". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  11. "Fishbowl Summer Superlatives - THE RESULTS!". Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  12. Paul Farhi, "Journalists Complain the White House Press Office Has Become Overly Combative," The Washington Post, December 22, 2011
  13. "Julie Mason: A Clash Fan Who Wants to Interview Obama Over 'Strong Cocktails,'" The Hill, June 12, 2014
  14. "Well, It's One Way to Avoid the In-Laws," The Boston Globe, May 311, 1996, image 48
  15. Clark County, Nevada, Marriage Index, 1956-1966, Las Vegas, Nevada
  16. "Politico Playbook: A Small Crack in the GOP Firewall: Wedding," Politico, October 19, 2019
  17. "Birthday of the Day: Julie Mason, host of SiriusXM's 'Press Pool," Politico, December 11, 2018
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