Andrea Stone is a nationally known journalist who has worked at America’s largest daily newspaper and now writes for one of the world’s largest news websites. In her current position as senior national correspondent for The Huffington Post based in Washington, D.C., Stone covers politics and foreign policy with a focus on national and homeland security. She is most proud of co-authoring an investigation of the National Women’s History Museum in Washington that has prompted changes in the organization’s operations. Stone came to HuffPost after a stint as Washington bureau chief for AOL News, where she was the only national reporter besides AP to cover the first enumeration of the 2010 Census in a village above the Arctic Circle in Alaska.

Before moving online full-time, Stone spent most of her career at USA TODAY. Over nearly 24 years at the newspaper, she covered national news, the Pentagon, presidential and congressional politics, Capitol Hill, foreign affairs and business. Her reporting has taken her to 47 states and more than two dozen countries to report on some of the biggest and most historic stories of our time.

Stone covered the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 and was at the Pentagon minutes after American Flight 77 crashed into it on Sept. 11, 2001. She has reported from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans. Stone has reported from Israel and the Palestinian territory, including coverage of Yasser Arafat’s funeral, the election of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza. As a national correspondent, she has covered hurricanes, plane crashes, murder trials and political and social battles from stem cell research to gay marriage. Her coverage of the 50th anniversary of D-Day in France was nominated by her editors at USA TODAY for Pulitzer Prize. Stone traveled with vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman in 2000 and presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2008 and over the years has reported on dozens of Senate, House and gubernatorial races from Connecticut to Alaska.

Born and bred in the Bronx, Stone took the bus to Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, where she got a B.A. but spent most of her time working on the school newspaper. She later earned a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Stone has appeared on television and radio, including such outlets as CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera and NPR. Besides serving on the board and as treasurer of JAWS, she is active as a member and mentor of the National Press Club and the News Literacy Project.

Stone married the editor of her college newspaper, Stephen Zuckerman, now a health care economist at the Urban Institute. They have one son, Alex.

“Whether you are just starting your career as a journalist or trying to reinvent yourself amid the upheaval in our industry, there is someone at JAWS who has been there, done that or can buck you up and offer advice, moral support and friendship along the way.”