Julie Pace
Julie Pace
Julie Ann Pace (b. 1982) is an American journalist. She serves as Associated Press's Bureau chief for the White House. [1] She joined AP's White House group in 2009 after covering the 2008 presidential election. She makes frequent national television appearances.
Education
Pace is a 2004 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Career
Pace started her career in 2003 working at e.tv, South Africa' s only independent only independent television network. She was also as a freelancer in South Africa and Zambia until 2004.
Between 2005 to 2007, she worked as a reporter at The Tampa Tribune .
Associated Press
Julie Pace joined AP in 2007 as a multimedia reporter.
She handled video operations.
She also developed and executed AP’s plans for live video coverage of the United States presidential election in 2008, as well as the First inauguration of Barack Obama.
In 2013, Pace was named White House correspondent and took on responsibility for AP’s overall coverage of the Obama's presidency . In that role, she also served as AP’s lead reporter on the 2016 campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
On June 12, 2017, Julie Pace was appointed as Washington's Bureau chief for the Associated Press. She now directs AP’s coverage of the presidency, politics and the U.S. government.
Awards & Accomplishments
Julie Pace (second from the left) with President Obama, her husband Michael Ferenczy, and Michelle Obama at the Merriman Smith award ceremony in 2013)
Pace won the White House Correspondents' Association Merriman Smith award in 2013 in the print category. She was awarded for writing one of the first explanations of the campaign’s winning yet complex ‘get-out-the vote’ strategy. Her work explaining the Obama campaign’s approach to voter turnout came shortly after President Obama's 2012 re-election.
Her analyses of the 2016 election won the Oliver S. Gramling award for journalism; it is considered AP’s highest internal honor. She received it for guiding the political team’s reporting, providing key source reporting and breaking news stories, wrote stories regarding the debates, primary night, convention and campaigns, and represented AP on news networks like CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
Julie Pace is an officer and the current treasurer of the White House Correspondents Association.
Personal Life
Julie Pace is a daughter of Diane M. Pace and James J. Pace of Amherst, New York. Her father owns a lawn care company called I.G.S. Landscaping. Her mother is a radiology supervisor at the D.I.A./Invision Health, a radiology practice in Williamsville, New York.
She and her husband, Michael Ferenczy, got married in October 2014.