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Claire Shipman Senior National Correspondent  Claire Shipman joined ABC News' "Good Morning America" as senior national correspondent in May, 2001. In addition to reporting on a wide spectrum of national news for "Good Morning America," Ms. Shipman also serves as a substitute news anchor on various ABC News programs, including the news segments on "Good Morning America" and weekend editions of "World News Tonight." She is based out of the network's Washington, DC, bureau.From 1997 to May 2001 Ms. Shipman was White House correspondent for NBC News, where she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" and the "Today" show. In addition to her NBC duties, for two years Ms. Shipman wrote a popular column for George magazine. Through her on-the-ground reporting during the presidential campaign, Ms. Shipman broke many big election stories. On "Today" she conducted the first televised interview with then Vice President Al Gore in the wake of his campaign finance troubles. She was the first to report that Vice President Gore would name Senator Joseph Lieberman as his running mate, and, in December 2000, she was the first to report on the Florida Supreme Court's decision to allow a recount of contested ballots. Prior to going to NBC, Ms. Shipman worked at CNN for a decade, where she gained widespread recognition covering the White House. Previously she spent five years at CNN's Moscow bureau, where she won international praise for her coverage of Boris Yeltsin's 1993 assault on the Russian Parliament building. Ms. Shipman's Moscow coverage helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award and her reporting on the aborted Soviet coup and 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union won the network a coveted Peabody award. She also received a Dupont award and an Emmy as one of the key contributors to CNN's coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student uprising, and a Dupont award for CNN's coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Ms. Shipman began her broadcast career as a production assistant and intern at CNN's bureau in New York. She holds a graduate degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a BA in Russian studies from Columbia College in New York, where she was graduated Magna Cum Laude. Ms. Shipman, a Columbus, Ohio native, now resides in Washington, DC, with her husband, Time magazine White House correspondent Jay Carney. Need to write? 
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