JAMES CARNEY

White House Correspondent
TIME Magazine

James Carney has been a White House correspondent for TIME Magazine since July 1993. In addition to covering the range of President Clinton's domestic and foreign policies, he has written and reported stories on the internal workings of the White House, the Whitewater affair, the influence of polling and outside political consultants on the president and the First Lady's role in the Clinton Administration. Recently he wrote an article examining Clinton as a candidate for re-election in 1996.

As a correspondent in TIME's Moscow bureau from June 1990 through June 1993, Carney covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Russia and the other former republics as independent states. During that assignment, he reported on the violent crackdown on the Baltic independence movements, the failed hard-line coup in Moscow in August 1991, the ethnic war in Nagorno-Karabakh and the political struggles between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his anti-reform opponents. Specific stories included a profile of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in February 1992; several articles in TIME's December 1992 special issue, "Can Russia Escape Its Past?", which won the prize for excellence in magazine feature reporting from the Deadline Club/Society of Professional Journalists; a February 1993 story chronicling the encounters and ruminations of a Moscow taxi driver; and an April 1993 cover article for TIME International about Ukraine's inherited nuclear arsenal.

Carney began work for TIME as Miami Bureau Chief in December 1988. In that assignment he covered the U.S. invasion of Panama, Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Cuba and the federal lawsuit designed to protect the Everglades. Before joining the magazine, he was a reporter for The Miami Herald.

A native Virginian, Carney holds a B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University.