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Rebecca Buck

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Rebecca Buck
BornRebecca Genelle Berg
(1990-01-17) January 17, 1990 (age 34)
San Diego, California
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏫 EducationUniversity of Missouri (B.A.)
💼 Occupation
Journalist
📆 Years active  2012–present
👩 Spouse(s)
Brendan Buck (m. 2018)
👴 👵 Parent(s)Kris and Steven Ira Berg

Rebecca Genelle Buck (née Berg; born January 17, 1990) is an American journalist who covers politics.

Early life and education[edit]

Buck is a native of San Diego, the daughter of Kris (née Kouba) and Steven Ira Berg.[1] Her father was Jewish and worked as a city planner and later at a real estate brokerage founded by his wife.[1][2] She has one sister, Emily.[1][3] Buck indicated that two events influenced her career choice – the events of September 11 and the presidential election of 2008. In 2011, she received a bachelor's degree with a dual major of magazine journalism and political science from the University of Missouri, where she was a Walter Williams Scholar.[4]

Career[edit]

After college Buck interned for The New Yorker magazine[5] In 2012, she began working as a political reporting fellow for The New York Times.[6] The same year, she started to write for BuzzFeed.[7] From 2013–2015, Buck wrote for the Washington Examiner. She joined RealClearPolitics in 2015 as a national political reporter covering the 2016 United States presidential election. With the election, Buck was named a political analyst for CNN but also appeared on networks such as Fox News, MSNBC, CBS and C-SPAN.[8] In November 2017, she became a politics reporter for CNN,[9] where she is a lead reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign.[10]

Personal life[edit]

On November 17, 2018, Buck married Brendan Buck, at the time a press secretary, and subsequently changed her surname from Berg. The couple is based in Washington, D.C.[11]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 San Diego Tribune: "Steven I. Berg 1952 - 2013 June 7, 2013
  2. Steven Ira Berg retrieved August 8, 2017
  3. Town and Style Magazine: "I Do! Zuckerman-Gomez Wedding" By: Stephanie Zeilenga February 19, 2014
  4. "School to Recognize 147 Graduates at Fall Commencement Ceremony on Dec. 16". December 9, 2011.
  5. "BuzzFeed's Rebecca Berg to Washington Examiner (and Other Recent Hires)". www.adweek.com.
  6. The New York Times: The Caucus: Rebecca Berg
  7. Betsy Rothstein (July 2, 2013). "BuzzFeed's Rebecca Berg to Washington Examiner (and Other Recent Hires)". Adweek. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  8. "Rebecca Berg | Author | RealClearPolitics". www.realclearpolitics.com.
  9. "Rebecca Berg joins CNN as a full-time political reporter". CNN Commentary. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  10. "CNN's Rebecca Buck, lead reporter covering Cory Booker - The Electables". February 2019 – via open.spotify.com.
  11. "Rebecca Berg, Brendan Buck". The New York Times. November 18, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2019.

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