Press Release: Washington Examiner hires Fred Barnes as Senior Columnist

The Washington Examiner is delighted to welcome Fred Barnes as a Senior Columnist.

Barnes, who will start work on March 18, was executive editor of The Weekly Standard, which he co-founded in 1995.

Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon says, “It’s of course great news that Fred will be joining the Washington Examiner. He is a superb journalist with boundless energy and a great instinct for news and politics. I could not be more pleased that he is coming on board as Senior Columnist.

From 1985 to 1995, Barnes was senior editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.

Barnes appears regularly on the Fox News Channel. From 1988 to 1998 he was a regular panelist on the McLaughlin Group. He has also appeared on Nightline, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation.

Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Attribution: washingtonexaminer.com
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