Claire Shipman's Biography

Claire Shipman joined ABC News' "Good Morning America" as the morning broadcast's senior national correspondent in May of 2001. Shipman also regularly serves as a substitute anchor for both "Good Morning America" and the weekend edition of the morning broadcast. She is based out of the network's Washington D.C. bureau.

Claire Shipman is the senior national correspondent for "Good Morning America." She is also the author of the book "Womenomics" and the "Womenomics" blog on ABCNews.com.

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Shipman regularly interviews newsmakers for "Good Morning America." She has sat down for in-depth interviews with former Vice President Dick Cheney, Queen Rania of Jordan, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as presidential candidates and political leaders. Shipman has reported from Iraq, where she spent time with former U.S. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer. Shipman was part of the team that covered the 2008 presidential election for ABC News and also continues to report on various news stories affecting the lives of Americans around the country.

Prior to joining ABC News, Shipman was NBC News' White House correspondent. There she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" and the "Today" show. In addition to her NBC duties, Shipman wrote a popular column for John F. Kennedy Jr's George Magazine.

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Through her on-the-ground reporting during the 2000 presidential election, Shipman broke many big stories at NBC. On "Today" she conducted the first televised interview with then Vice President Al Gore in the wake of his campaign finance troubles. She was the first to report that Gore would name Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate, and in December 2000 she was the first to report on the Florida Supreme Court's decision to allow a recount of contested ballots.

Before NBC, Shipman spent 10 years at CNN, where she covered the White House. Shipman previously spent five years at CNN's Moscow bureau, where she won international praise for her coverage of Boris Yeltsin's 1993 assault on the Russian Parliament building.

Shipman's reporting from Moscow helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award and her reporting on the aborted Soviet coup and 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union won the network a coveted Peabody Award. She received a DuPont Award and an Emmy Award as one of the key contributors to CNN's coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student uprising. She is also the recipient of a DuPont Award for CNN's coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.