Carla Marinucci is a political reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle,[1] specializing in California state gubernatorial politics and national politics. Marinucci is a veteran California political reporter and has also covered business and crime in the past for the Contra Costa Times and The San Francisco Examiner.[2] She has won more than two dozen national and state awards.[2] Marinucci has broken numerous national political news stories, including about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.[1] She also appears frequently on the PBS Public Television show This Week in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area[2] and has appeared several times on Hardball with Chris Matthews.[3]
She received international attention in April 2011 after posting a video on the internet of Barack Obama saying Bradley Manning "broke the law". Supporters of Manning accused Obama of jeopardising Manning's chances of receiving a fair trial. Marinucci was punished[4][5] by the White House which withdrew her privileges.[6][7] The White House was then accused of hypocrisy.[8] The San Francisco Chronicle accused the White House of a "credibility gap on press coverage".[9]