Jackie Calmes is an American journalist and the Washington bureau editor of the Los Angeles Times. She is best known as the Washington Opinion Columnist for the LA Times, specializing in national and federal politics and debate. She is known for her strong opinion and expertise.
Early life
Jackie Calmes grew up in Toledo, Ohio, USA, but has not revealed her date of birth. It is believed that she was born in the 1970s. She also hasn’t revealed much about her parents, family, and background. Jackie completed her high school education at the Catholic High School of Toledo Central in Ohio and later earned her degree in journalism from the University of Toledo. She also completed a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Jackie Calmes career
Jackie began her journalism career in Texas, where she was a reporter for the metropolitan bureau of Harte Hanks newspaper. She also worked for the Dallas Morning News’s Austin Bureau. In 1984, she moved to Washington and began working for Congressional Quarterly. In 1990, she joined the Wall Street Journal as a White House, Congressional, or Policy Editor. She became the editor of the Politics and Politics page and also had the Washington Wire column. Jackie worked there for nearly two decades until she decided to join The New York Times in 2008.
She has appeared as a panelist and guest on multiple channels such as PBS Washington Week, CBS Face the Nation, CNN, MSNBC, etc. She began working for the newspaper as a White House correspondent. Calmes worked for the newspaper for eight years and left in 2016. She joined the Los Angeles Times in 2017, where she began writing op-eds as an opinion columnist in Washington. She writes about national politics and politics and discusses the impact of various moves or how past actions affect the future of the country.
Jackie has worked for the paper for four and a half years and is also a contributing editor in the paper’s Washington Bureau. She recently published an opinion column on how Biden failed to manage the situation in Kabul and take out US forces, and how that would affect future electoral votes in 2022. Her opinion reached many people and led to a serious discussion about the situation in Kabul and how the US could have done it differently. She is also an author and recently published her book Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Conquest of the Court in June 2021.
Jackie Calmes Biography | |
|---|---|
| Real name | Jackie Calmes |
| date of birth | September 18th |
| Age | Not known |
| place of birth | Toledo, Ohio, USA |
| nationality | American |
| job | writer, journalist |
| religion | Christianity |
| sun sign | Not known |
Physical Statistics | |
| height | in feet inches – 5′ 5” – in centimeters – 165cm |
| Weight | in kilograms – 65kg – in pounds – 143 pounds |
| shoe size | 7 (USA) |
| Hair color | Brown |
| eye color | blue |
| body type | average |
Jackie Calmes family | |
| father | Not known |
| mother | Not known |
| sister | Not known |
| Brothers | Not known |
Qualification/Education | |
| school | Toledo’s Central Catholic High School |
| University | University of Toledo, Northwestern University |
relationship status | |
| marital status | Married |
| affair | no |
| Who is Jackie Calmes’s husband? | Not known |
| children | Carrie, Sarah |
Personal life
Jackie Calmes is currently married to her husband, whose name has not been shared. She hasn’t revealed much about her personal life and likes to keep her personal life private. She has two daughters, Cathy and Sarah, and currently resides in Washington with her family.
Jackie Calmes net worth
Jackie Calmes has worked as a reporter and journalist for major newspapers and media houses for several decades. She has been able to earn a lot of fortune, and her net worth as of 2021 is estimated to be around $1.5 million.
Facts About Jackie Calmes
- She was a Winter 2017 Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, where discussions on emerging economic policies and their implications took place.
- Her favorite author is Michi Kakutani, who is also her colleague.
- She has covered several important administrations from George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, to Trump and Biden.
- In 2005, she received the Gerald R Ford Journalism Prize for reporting on George Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.