| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Jackie Calmes |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available on the year she was born. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 2 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
| What Happened to Jackie Calmes? | Calmes works for the Los Angeles Times as a White House editor. |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Jackie Calmes is an American writer, journalist, and political correspondent who is based in Washington D.C.
- Hard-working and committed to her work, Jackie has been working in journalism for decades and has built a solid reputation as a consummate professional in the industry.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Calmes was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio.
- She is a mother of 2 grown daughters named Carrie and Sarah and has stated that neither one of them is interested in following in her footsteps of becoming a journalist.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info :
- Jackie attended Toledo’s Central Catholic High School, where she was a member of the school’s weekly newspaper.
- She graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism before moving on to Northwestern University where she earned her Master’s in Journalism.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- After graduating from college, Calmes began working at the Abilene Reporter News in Texas. She spent one year at the publication before relocating to Austin, Texas, where she worked for Harte-Hanks Newspaper as well as the Dallas Morning News.
- In 1984, she joined a privately owned publishing company, Congressional Quarterly and spent six years working with the publication. She also worked for Cox Newspapers Inc. and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Washington D.C.
- In Washington D.C, Calmes landed a job with the Wall Street Journal and worked as a reporter, covering campaigns during the presidential election, congressional campaigns as well as tax and budget legislation.
- In 1997, she became a White House Correspondent for the publication and covered the Bush campaign as well national politics in general until 2000.
- In June of 2001, she was promoted to News Editor and worked for the publication’s Politics and Policy Page. She also became a reporter and a writer for the Journal’s Friday column called “Washington Wire.”
- In 2002, Jackie decided to make a full-time return to the reporting world and once again became the White House Correspondent.
- In 2008, she moved from the Wall Street Journal and joined the Washington bureau of the New York Times as one of their White House Correspondents. For years, she covered economic policies, national politics, and years of Former U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration.
- Leaving the New York Times in 2014, she went on to join the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times where she currently works as an editor for the White House.
- In 2017, she was a Winter Resident Fellow of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. She spent two weeks at the institution focusing on healthcare issues, tax, globalization, and other socio-political issues affecting the U.S. and the international world.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Jackie received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award in 2005 for her work covering the Bush presidency.
- She was nine months pregnant with her first child when her mentor Al Hunt hired her for covering the Congress for the Wall Street Journal.
- When she is not working, she enjoys reading and spending time with family.
- Jackie is a fan of writer Michi Kakutani. She considers Michi to be one of the most intelligent writers in the world today. Kakutani is also a former colleague of Jackie’s.
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Jackie, we are still hanging in there. Pauline is 84 and I am 82.
Jackie,
I read your article on Catholic bishops and as a 16-year graduate of Catholic schools, I agree with everything you said. Don’t forget about Bishop Gomes of L.A. Who wants to refuse communion to Biden!
Dear Ms Calmes,
I read your article criticizing Glenn Youngkin’s campaigning as divisive and promoting Trumpism. It is advertised as a 4-minute read but if you were to remove all of the hyperbole and invective you could have made your point in two to three sentences saving untold thousands of readers at least 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Conservation of energy is a good thing and has a high value in reporting and editorializing.
I would like to know how you got as far, age-wise, as you have with your twisted ideas about Republicans. It’s obvious that you don’t want to see what is really happening in our country right now with the criminal democrats and their fraud in the 2020 election. I say that if you are a democrat today, you are complicit in the fraud. It is staring you right in the face yet you do not see. How ignorant are you?? Or is it that you are just stupid and riding along on the crooked, evil, democrats coat tails?! In this country, it is not Republican and democrat anymore. It is good against evil but you may even be too blind to see that too. I feel sorry for you that you do not see the big picture.
PS: I turned 21 in 1951 and planned to vote for Eisenhour, the hero of WWII, in my first Election. But, in the meantime, I met my future husband (on an airplane), who was 100% for Adlai Stevenson.
To this day, I cannot remember which one I voted for–or if I failed to vote. (At the time, I was a school teacher in Montana, and my future husband lived in Los Angeles, where I later joined him for lo, these many years.
Carol Clark
I just saw an article by Jackie Calmes in the LA TIMES. The name rang a bell, so I looked her up online. It was like reuniting with an old friend! I remember her from news programs…probably “Washington Week, ” which we have watched for decades. So good to see her face again, and to know she is still working…and for the LA TIMES, no less!
My Dear Miss Calmes,
I just read your opinion piece online about the ole yellow dog Democrats, with whom I grew up. I was raised in what used to be called a family of “Republicans” which of course, no resemblance to what goes by Republicans today. My first chance to vote for a president was Nixon for his second term. When I was not stationed in South East Asia, until recently, (2016/2020) I have always voted for Republican presidents. I’ve never just voted for a straight Republican ballot, and now I’m not sure I will ever vote for many Republicans at all. Not fond of most of the “out there” ideas from the Democrats, so I hope a good centrist third party develops.
Growing up it was fun to discuss politics with my yellow dog friends. We would point out the errors of each other’s ways (I was always right of course!!! ) and then go play some baseball or cards or go grab a Coke. Nowadays you can’t discuss politics with “the other side” without it being almost an argument it seems.
Anyway, I digress by filling you in on my background a bit. I am sorry. I just wanted to say I really really loved your article and I wish it was required reading for every American. Now I need to track down some more of your articles/books.
Please, Ma’am, keep up the great work and unvarnished truths! Thank you so much.
Scott