White House press secretary
Jay Carney completed a 20-year journey from budding reporter to the most visible spokesman in the country in January 2011, when President Barack Obama named the former Time standout his second press secretary. He followed Robert Gibbs into the role.
Carney had a prime seat for the presidency of Obama predecessor George W. Bush as Time's Washington bureau chief from 2005 to 2008, before starting work for Vice President Joe Biden in 2009. Now on the ...