Shannon Pettypiece

Shannon Pettypiece is an American print and broadcast journalist. She is currently Senior White House Correspondent for NBC News Digital.[3]

Shannon Pettypiece
Born (1981-06-10) June 10, 1981[1]
Lake Orion, Michigan, United States[1]
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Michigan
OccupationWhite House correspondent
Years active8
EmployerNBC News 2019 - present
Parent(s)Aileen and Doug Pettypiece[2]
RelativesErin Pettypiece (Sister)

Early life

Pettypiece grew up in Lake Orion, Michigan where she attended Lake Orion High School.[1][2] At age 5, she began showing horses competitively and was involved in 4-H as well as her high school and college equestrian teams. She attended the University of Michigan where she was a reporter and editor at The Michigan Daily, the university's student-run newspaper.[4] She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in political science with a focus on Russia and the former-Soviet Union. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a woodworker.[2]

Journalism career

Pettypiece's first journalism job was as an intern for The New York Times in Washington, D.C.[3] She later worked as a stringer for The New York Times in Detroit. She has covered local government for Miami Today News and health care and technology for Crain's Cleveland Business.

In 2006, she joined Bloomberg News in Washington covering the Food and Drug Administration. She later moved to New York where she took over coverage of the pharmaceutical industry. She has also been a contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek.[4] While at Bloomberg, she has interviewed the chief executives of the world's largest health care companies, including Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, and Eli Lilly. Her reporting has taken her to China, where she went inside Chinese hospitals, research labs, and homes for a four-part series on the country's evolving health care system.[5]

In 2010, she became a correspondent for Bloomberg TV, covering the health care industry.[4]

As of July 3, 2019 she is a senior White House reporter for NBC News Digital.

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References
  1. "Shannon Pettypiece". MyHeritage.
  2. "Wedding". Clarkston News. June 8, 2011.
  3. "Shannon Pettypiece". Bloomberg. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  4. "Shannon Pettypiece - Biography". World Congress. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  5. Pettypiece, Shannon (December 24, 2007). "Rich Chinese Help Foreign Drug Sales Rise With Blood Pressure". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
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