Julie Mason

Mason was a White House correspondent for the Houston Chronicle,{{Cite web|url=https://about.me/julie_mason|title=Julie Mason on about.me|last=Mason|first=Julie|website=about.me|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-12}} Washington Examiner and Politico during the George W. Bush administration and the first term of Barack Obama's administration. She was with the Chronicle for twenty years.

Mason's first job was as a clerk in the Washington bureau of the Dallas Morning News, and In 1988 she went to Texas to work as a reporter with the Houston Chronicle. She was transferred to the newspaper's Washington bureau in 2001 but was laid off in 2008{{Cite web |date=2018-12-11 |title=BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Julie Mason, host of SiriusXM's 'Press Pool' |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/playbook-birthday-julie-mason-1055431 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=politico.com}} while serving as the paper's White House correspondent. She worked at the Washington Examiner as a White House reporter until 2010, when she joined Politico's White House team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.borderstan.com/2012/12/19/julie-mason-is-getting-sirius/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219093355/https://www.borderstan.com/2012/12/19/julie-mason-is-getting-sirius/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 19, 2017|title=Julie Mason is Getting Sirius|date=2012-12-19|website=Borderstan|access-date=2017-02-18}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.adweek.com/digital/behind-the-scenes-with-the-bawdy-julie-mason/|title=Behind the Scenes With the Bawdy Julie Mason|access-date=2017-02-18|language=en-US}} She joined SiriusXM in 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2011/11/top-white-house-reporter-julie-mason-heading-to-radio.html|title=Top White House reporter Julie Mason heading to radio {{!}} Planet Washington blog|website=blogs.mcclatchydc.com|access-date=2017-02-18|archive-date=2017-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219095126/http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2011/11/top-white-house-reporter-julie-mason-heading-to-radio.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.borderstan.com/2011/01/12/meet-julie-mason-white-house-correspondent-neighbor/ |title=Michelle Lancaster, "Meet Julie Mason, White House Correspondent, Neighbor," Borderstan, January 12, 2011 |access-date=October 25, 2016 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727061219/https://www.borderstan.com/2011/01/12/meet-julie-mason-white-house-correspondent-neighbor/ |url-status=dead }} In 2014, Mason received the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in the Media for outstanding achievement as a radio talk show host.[http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/209091-julie-mason-a-clash-fan-who-wants-to-intew-obama-over Judy Kurtz, "A Clash fan who wants to interview Obama over 'strong cocktails,' The Hill, June 12, 2014]{{dead link|date=April 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} She has been the secretary and a board member of the White House Correspondents' Association.

She has been noted for her impressions of notable figures such as Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and John Boehner.[http://patch.com/new-york/easthampton/julie-mason-shining-brightly-press-pool T.J. Clemente, "Julie Mason Shining Brightly by the Press Pool," East Hampton Patch, March 5, 2016]{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/09/an-elizabeth-warren-impersonation-you-need-to-hear/|title=An Elizabeth Warren impersonation you need to hear|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2017-02-12}} Readers of FishbowlDC in 2012 voted Mason "class clown" of the Washington press corps.{{Cite news|url=http://www.adweek.com/digital/fishbowl-summer-superlatives-the-results/|title=Fishbowl Summer Superlatives - THE RESULTS!|access-date=2017-02-18|language=en-US}}

One report said that Mason is known for her "bawdy personality and quick wit." Television commentator Bill O'Reilly in 2014 called her a "loon" because, according to him, she suggested that he and Glenn Beck may have damaged the Fox News "brand."

In 2011, White House press secretary Jay Carney called one of Mason's stories "partisan, inflammatory and tendentious," and U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor sent her an e-mail that included an animated picture of a crying mime, a "visual suggestion that she was whining," according to Washington Post columnist Paul Farhi.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/journalists-complain-the-white-house-press-office-has-become-overly-combative/2011/12/20/gIQAvRnTAP_story.html Paul Farhi, "Journalists Complain the White House Press Office Has Become Overly Combative," The Washington Post, December 22, 2011]

Mason grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, graduated from Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, and attended American University in Washington, D.C.[https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/209091-julie-mason-a-clash-fan-who-wants-to-interview-obama-over/ "Julie Mason: A Clash Fan Who Wants to Interview Obama Over 'Strong Cocktails,'" The Hill, June 12, 2014]

In May 1996, she married David Messina of Houston in the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada, where a Presley impersonator walked her down the aisle and serenaded her afterward.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/440924563/?terms=%22David%20Messina%22%20%22Julie%20Mason%22&match=1 "Well, It's One Way to Avoid the In-Laws," The Boston Globe, May 311, 1996, image 48][https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1100&h=7818325&tid=&pid=&queryId=f10bc5e68d965e6767b59434616c8e85&usePUB=true&_phsrc=lzy8&_phstart=successSource Clark County, Nevada, Marriage Index, 1956-1966, Las Vegas, Nevada]

In 2011, she lived in Washington, in the Dupont-Logan-U Street-Columbia Heights area.

Mason is a reader of Tarot cards.[https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/playbook-birthday-julie-mason-1055431 "Birthday of the Day: Julie Mason, host of SiriusXM's 'Press Pool," Politico, December 11, 2018]

• Tara Parker-Pope recalled that when she and Mason were reporters on the Houston Chronicle, the former stopped by Mason's desk to ask a question. Mason turned around "to show me I had her full attention" and said, "I've always got five minutes for a friend."[https://www.nytimes.com/guides/smarterliving/how-to-be-a-better-friend "How to Be a Better Friend," The New York Times, undated]
• Laura Bush was the "iron rod" at George W. Bush's back. "She keeps him from going too far off the deep end when he gets all caught up in his cock-of-the-walk behavior."[https://www.newspapers.com/image/442255106/?terms=%22Julie%20Mason%22&match=1 "Reading the Leaves About Laura Bush," The Boston Globe, January 19, 2001, image 56]

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxqGyJsnMxg Mason prepares for a White House Correspondents Association dinner] (video)

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• [https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/playbook-birthday-julie-mason-1055431 "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Julie Mason, host of SiriusXM's 'Press Pool'"]
• [https://www.borderstan.com/2012/12/19/julie-mason-is-getting-sirius "Julie Mason Is Getting Sirius," Borderstan, December 19, 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727061218/https://www.borderstan.com/2012/12/19/julie-mason-is-getting-sirius/ |date=July 27, 2022 }} (transcript of interview)
• [https://www.aei.org/press/discussing-inflation-creating-a-pay-cut-for-our-troops-ferrari-on-siriusxms-julie-mason-mornings "Discussing inflation creating a pay cut for our troops: Ferrari on SiriusXM's 'Julie Mason Mornings,'American Enterprise Institute, November 18, 2021]

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