Ashley Parker Biography
Ashley Parker is an American journalist who works as a White House reporter for The Washington Post and a senior political commentator for MSNBC. She worked for The New York Times as a politics reporter in Washington from 2011 to 2017.
Age
She was born Ashley Rebecca Parker on 1982, in Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Parker is 42 years old as of 2023.
Education
Parker attended Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda and graduated in 2001. She also spent part of her junior year at La Universidad de Sevilla in Spain and speaks Spanish fluently. She earned a summa cum laude degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, majoring in English (Creative Writing focus) and Communications.
Family- Parents
Bruce and Betty Parker gave birth to and raised Parker in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father was the previous president of the Environmental Industries Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade organization. She has spent the most of her life in Bethesda, with the exception of her undergraduate years and several years working for The New York Times. Her immediate family still lives in the neighborhood.
Husband- Spouse
On June 16, 2018, she married Michael C. Bender, then a White House writer for The Wall Street Journal. Parker and her husband have a daughter, Mazarine, who was born in November 2018. Parker is also the stepmother of Bender’s daughter from a previous marriage.
Career
Parker interned at The New York Sun and the Gaithersburg Gazette, part of the Washington Post. He served as an editor and writer at 34 Street Magazine and The Daily Penn, the independent student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After graduating from Penn State, Parker worked for the Gaithersburg Gazette, including local government and town meetings. He was an investigator for New York Times reporter Maureen Dow, appears regularly on PBS’s “The Washington Weekly” and writes for the New York Times Magazine. He has covered various Republican candidates, presidential candidates, and topics including current events in New York City and the White House. He also covered Chelsea Clinton’s wedding for the New York Times.
Parker’s photographs have appeared in Vanity Fair magazine, and her articles have appeared in other publications, including the New York Sun, Glamour, The Huffington Post, Washingtonian, Chicago newspapers and magazines, and lifestyle news. Shared the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Contributions to Journalism Award with Washington Post colleague Philip Rucker. She was part of the Washington Post reporting team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. On September 7, 2019, Donald Trump called Parker a “bad reporter” in a tweet and called for him to be banned from the White House. November 20, 2019 Parker joins the 2020 race with Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker in the fifth Democratic debate. became White House Editor of the Washington Post in January 2021. On May 9, 2022, received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Washington Post staff.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.