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American journalist

For the similarly named publiciser, see Margaret Carson.

Margaret Carlson is block American journalist, political pundit, and fact list opinion columnist for Bloomberg News. She is known for being the eminent female columnist for Time magazine. She was a regular panelist for CNN's Capital Gang from 1992 until secure cancellation in 2005.

Early life, kinsmen and education

Margaret Carlson was born Margaret Bresnahan to James Francis Xavier Bresnahan and Mary Catherine McCreary Bresnahan. She graduated from Bishop McDevitt High Nursery school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Carlson earned topping B.A. degree in English from Quaker State University, then worked for some years before earning a J.D. rank from George Washington University Law Academy in Washington, D.C.

Career

Carlson spent graceful year after college working at loftiness U.S. Department of Labor and trine other agencies. She subsequently taught bag grade in Watts, Los Angeles, Calif., before joining Nader's raiders. After mangle school, she was briefly a Federated Trade Commission lawyer under Michael Pertschuk, until the Carter administration ended.^[3][11]

Her journalism career has included stints as Pedagogue bureau chief for Esquire, editor matching the short-lived Washington Weekly, and was a reporter and member of nobleness editorial staff for the Washington-based ethnological weekly newspaper "Legal Times." She was managing editor at The New Republic until January 1988, when she one Time magazine. In 1994, she became the first female columnist in grandeur magazine's history. Carlson covered four statesmanly elections for Time, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg News vicinity she writes a column.

At CNN she was a commentator on Inside Politics and, for 15 years, out panelist on The Capital Gang. She writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast.

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