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 News where she writes a column.
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 was a panelist for 15 years on CNN's The Capital Gang.
Carlson earned a B.A. in English from Penn State University and a law degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.
She has one daughter and lives in Washington, D.C.
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- Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made It to the White House, with Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-684-80890-0