Claire Shipman

Claire Shipman is a national correspondent and occasional substitute anchor for ABC's Good Morning America 2001. Previously based out of the Washington, DC bureau, Shipman had been a White House correspondent for NBC News.

1. Born in 1962 in Columbus Ohio
2. Alma Mater: Columbia University
3. Married to Time Magazine's White House correspondent Jay Carney
4. Began her journalism career as an intern at CNN's bureau in New York
5. Wrote for George Magazine
6. Before working at NBC, Shipman worked at CNN, covering politics
7. Spent five years at CNN's Moscow bureau
8. Won a Peabody Award for her coverage of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union
9. Received a Dupont Award and an Emmy for her coverage of the 1989 Tianamen Square student uprising
10. Received a Dupont Award for her coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing