Julie Carey

News4 Reporter

Updated 10:37 AM EST, Mon, Sep 7, 2009

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Julie Carey covers Virginia issues and politics for News4.

Carey joined News4 in 1992 and began covering Virginia soon after. Her reporting has taken her all over the Commonwealth, including Richmond, where she has covered the governor, the general assembly, and every election since 1993.

Carey has also done extensive reporting on issues of regional interest, including sex offenders, child abuse, the rise of methamphetamine abuse, and the integration of women into the Virginia Military Institute. In the late 1990s, she provided daily coverage of the Kenneth Starr grand jury investigations and the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. In 2005, she was the lead reporter in the trial of sniper suspect Lee Malvo.

Prior to joining News4, Carey reported for KSDK-TV in St. Louis, WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, and KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she began her career. She graduated from Indiana University with a journalism degree.

Carey was raised in Iowa in a family of journalists. She and her husband, the political editor for Bloomberg, live in Alexandria with their two children. Carey is active as a volunteer in the Alexandria Public Schools and in her church.

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