Barbara Starr

Starr is a graduate of the California State University, Northridge, from which she earned a degree in journalism. From 1979 to 1988, she was a correspondent for Business Week magazine, covering energy matters. She then worked for the news magazine Jane's Defence Weekly from 1988 to 1997 covering national security and defense policy before joining ABC News as a producer, covering the Pentagon, for which she won an Emmy Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/starr.barbara.html |title=CNN Profiles - Barbara Starr - Pentagon Correspondent|work=CNN|access-date=30 July 2016}}

In 2001, Starr joined CNN as the lead Pentagon correspondent, covering national security issues including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. She served on the board of the Pentagon Press Association for several years, and was reportedly described by colleagues and competitors as "a mentor."[https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/media/barbara-starr-leaving-cnn/index.html]

Starr has received criticism for her reporting, having been called "a spokesperson for the Pentagon."{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/michael-hastings-on-a-mission-149437 |title=Michael Hastings on a mission|work=politico.com|date=November 13, 2012 |access-date=30 July 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jscahill.php?articleid=8553 |title=CNN Blames the Photos, Not the Torture|author=Jeremy Scahill|website=antiwar.com|date=February 16, 2006 |access-date=30 July 2016}}

In June 2013, MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes ran a segment, in which he argued that Starr's publication of leaked information was at least as potentially harmful to national security as those published by Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.

In July 2015, Starr received criticism from Kenyans through a Twitter hashtag that trended for several hours on the Internet when she called Kenya a "terror hotbed" as President Obama headed to the East African nation. She was referring to the security threat posed by Al-Shabaab militants operating from neighboring Somalia.{{cite web|url=http://citizentv.co.ke/news/murimi-is-cnns-barbara-starr-a-hotbed-of-ignorance |title=MURIMI: Is CNN's Barbara Starr a 'hotbed of ignorance'?|work=citizentv.co.ke|access-date=30 July 2016}}

In May 2021, it was revealed that the Trump administration had secretly fought a legal battle with CNN for over a year in an effort to obtain Starr's phone and email records from 2017 as part of a leak probe. The Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr, petitioned a magistrate court in Virginia to send a secret order to CNN compelling it to produce records of Starr's emails kept on company servers. CNN's general counsel, David Vigilante, was under a gag order preventing him from sharing the details of the government's efforts, including with Starr herself. The Biden administration's Justice Department informed CNN and Starr of the probe and said that Starr was never the target of the investigation. President Biden subsequently said that he would not allow his Justice Department to seize journalists' phone or email records, calling the practice "simply wrong."{{Cite news |title=Biden says he won't allow Justice Dept. to seize journalists' phone, email records |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-journalists-justice-department/2021/05/21/fb606c4a-ba72-11eb-a5fe-bb49dc89a248_story.html |access-date=2022-05-19 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Jeremy Herb,Jessica |date=2021-05-20 |title=Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter's phone and email records {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/politics/trump-secretly-obtained-cnn-reporter-records/index.html |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=CNN |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=The Barbara Starr question: Why did Trump's Justice Department want CNN Pentagon reporter's emails? |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/barbara-starr-cnn-trump-justice-leak/2021/06/15/7642b1a8-cd1e-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |access-date=2022-05-19 |issn=0190-8286}}

Star announced her departure from CNN in December 2022.{{Cite web |last=Darcy |first=Oliver |date=2022-12-09 |title=CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is leaving the network after more than two decades {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/media/barbara-starr-leaving-cnn/index.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=CNN |language=en}}

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