Award–winning journalist Andrea Bernstein is Senior Editor for Politics & Policy for WNYC News. She has previously served as Metro Editor, Political Director, Director of Transportation Nation, and Senior Reporter.
Bernstein joined the WNYC news staff in 1998. She’s covered government, politics, planning and transportation since the early 1990's, and has at various points been assigned to cover Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson, Chris Christie, Bill de Blasio, and Andrew Cuomo. Bernstein was Political Director for WNYC and its national show, The Takeaway, during the 2008 elections, and covered that campaign from coast to coast. She was in charge of political coverage for WNYC for the 2012 elections & 2013 elections, and founded the award-winning Transportation Nation website.
Bernstein has worked with public radio stations across the country on several joint projects, including coverage of the 2008 and 2012 elections. Bernstein was executive producer, reporter and editor for the 2011 nationally-broadcast award-winning documentary "Back of the Bus: Mass Transit, Race, and Inequality."
Bernstein was one of 12 US Journalists to win a prestigious year-long 2007 Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She has won over 3 dozen awards for her work, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for radio, the National Press Club award for environmental reporting, and national Murrow (RTNDA) and Society for Professional Journalists awards for investigative reporting.
She was a political correspondent for the New York Observer for eight years, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Newsday, the Nation, the New York Daily News, and Salon.com.
She graduated from Yale University, cum laude, with honors.
She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two children.
Andrea Bernstein appears in the following:
Inside the Room with Cablevision’s Boss and 250 Angry Workers
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
So Far, Donations to de Blasio's Convention Bid Kept Secret
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Mean Streets 2014: Who We Lost, How They Lived
Monday, February 09, 2015
Heastie's Hasty Ascent
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Three Men and Their Slush Funds
Friday, January 30, 2015
This Week In Politics: Scandal Claims Another Powerful NY Leader
Saturday, January 24, 2015
A Year After 'Traffic Problems' Email, Bridgegate in 18 Stories
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Queens Family Still Waits for Justice in Traffic Death
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Speaker Mark-Viverito Emerges From DeBlasio’s Shadow
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
The NYPD Doesn't Publicize Traffic Deaths a Quarter of the Time
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Why Christie's Missing Texts Might Be Bridgegate's Smoking Gun
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Christie, Aide Texted As Bridgegate Cover Story Unraveled
Monday, December 08, 2014
Why Did Christie Delete 12 Bridgegate Text Messages?
Friday, December 05, 2014
Here Are 10 More People Who Have Died in Traffic Crashes This Year (Because It Keeps Happening)
Monday, November 24, 2014
No-Fault Traffic Deaths
Friday, November 21, 2014
After 47-Second Hearing, Driver Who Ran Over 3-Year-Old Is Found ‘Not Guilty’
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
This Week in Politics: Chris Christie, Billionaire Whisperer
Saturday, November 08, 2014
If NYC Fixed This Intersection, Why Do People Keep Dying There?
Thursday, November 06, 2014
This Week in Politics: Cuomo, Christie Bet the Farm
Saturday, November 01, 2014
