Julie Carey is the Northern Virginia Bureau chief for News4.
Carey has been covering Northern Virginia since joining News4 in 1992. 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. She is frequently called upon to participate in political debates involving Virginia candidates.
Carey has also done extensive reporting on issues of regional interest, including sex offenders, child 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. She has also been the lead reporter on some high-profile regional trials, including those of George Huguely and sniper suspect Lee Boyd 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 managing editor for Bloomberg, live in Alexandria. Her son and daughter, both graduates of what is now Alexandria City High School, are attending college.
Carey is active as a volunteer in Alexandria Public Schools and in her church.
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Teacher, parent win $1M in defamation suits against feed on X
A high-profile Virginia teacher and a parent decided to fight back against social media attacks, name-calling and false allegations, each filing defamation lawsuits against the creator of a conservative X feed. Both just won judgments of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fairfax County Public Schools teacher Robert Rigby is a well-known, outspoken figure in the community. The former president of…
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Virginia governor signs bills guaranteeing access to contraception
Calling it an historic day for women, Virginia Democrats are putting a spotlight on two legislative measures that guarantee access to contraception in the commonwealth. The bills’ sponsors said the measures are necessary to protect Virginians in case the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverses a long-held decision that protects contraceptive rights. The memorial to the suffragists who championed women’s...
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Bus driver charged with involuntary manslaughter is ‘devastated' over crash, attorney says
News4’s Julie Carey reports.
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Bus driver from I-95 crash that killed 5 appears in Stafford County court
Jing Dong, 48, from Staten Island, is facing five counts of involuntary manslaughter in Stafford County, Virginia, for a May 29 crash.
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Suspect in Herndon abduction, police chase is arrested
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Fredericksburg police investigate whether rape suspect attacked two other women
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100 mph Beltway driver faces upgraded charges for crash killing teen, grandmother
An Ohio man was charged with involuntary manslaughter after police say he caused a crash that killed a high school student and her grandmother on Christmas night.
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Questions arise as attorneys look into bus company involved in I-95 crash
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