Andrea Stone

Andrea Stone is an American journalist. She was a long-time correspondent for USA Today.

Early life and education

From the Bronx, New York City,^[1] she graduated the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[2]

Career

First she worked for newspapers in Illinois, Florida, and New York, including the Riverdale Press,^[1] and freelanced for Newsweek, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, The Gainesville Sun. She also worked with Gannett News Service in Arlington, Virginia.^[3] She also worked as bureau chief for Washington for AOL News.^[4]

In 1985 she was hired by USA Today and worked there for over 25 years.^{[3] [5]} In 2001, The Register criticized her piece on cyber-war as reading like government propaganda.^[6] In 2002, she was told by the Huffington Post to delete a Facebook post asking if Nazis felt "more comfortable" with the GOP than other parties, which was covered in Forbes.^[7] Of other articles she's written for USA Today,^[8] she covered topics like 9/11 at the Pentagon.^[9][10]

In 2011, she was hired by Huffington Post Media as Senior National Correspondent in politics,^[11] and that year was mentioned at the National Press Club by Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong.^[12]

In April 2013, she was hired as a senior online executive producer of Al Jazeera America.^[13][14][15]

By 2015, she had worked as a freelancer for National Geographic and other publications.^[1] She had also taught as an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, D.C.^[1] In 2015, she became director of career services for the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.^[1] She retired in June 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Stone has appeared on CNN^[16] and C-SPAN.^[17] She co-authored "Desert Warriors: Men and Women Who Won the Persian Gulf War."^[18]