Margaret Carlson

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Margaret Carlson is an American journalist and a columnist for Bloomberg News.

She is best known for being the first woman columnist at TIME magazine. Carlson joined Time in January 1988 from The New Republic, where she was managing editor; in 1994, she became the first woman columnist in the magazine's history. Carlson covered four presidential elections for TIME, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg; Eric Alterman says she was fired (see [1]).

Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire magazine, editor of Washington Weekly, and editor of the Legal Times of Washington. She writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times, and has appeared as a panelist on the CNN political programs Inside Politics and The Capital Gang.

She recently published her first book, Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made It to the White House, with Simon and Schuster.

She is unrelated to television journalist Tucker Carlson.