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Andrea Bernstein is a former WNYC journalist.

Peabody and duPont-Columbia award–winning journalist Andrea Bernstein was the Co-Host of the Trump, Inc. Podcast, a co-production with ProPublica. She wrote AMERICAN OLIGARCHS: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.

When she worked at WNYC, Bernstein covered the business of the Trump administration, and, with her colleague Ilya Marritz, she broke key stories, including those on how Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump avoided criminal indictment, Paul Manafort's money-laundering, Michael Cohen's fraudulent business practices, and Rudy Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine.

Bernstein, a long-time and regular contributor to NPR, has covered six national elections including the 2016 election, and her beats have included government, politics, transportation, environment, housing, and policing. At various points she's been assigned to cover Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson, Chris Christie, Bill de Blasio, and Andrew Cuomo.  Her investigative reporting on the Bridgegate scandal with Matt Katz won WNYC News its first-ever Peabody award.

Bernstein was one of 12 US Journalists to win a prestigious year-long 2007 Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She has won over 50 awards for her work, including the duPont-Columbia Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, 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 has taught journalism at City College, was the Jack Newfield Professor of Investigative Journalism at Hunter College, and led trainings for journalists in several venues, including preparing reporters in Bhutan to cover their first-ever political campaign in that country's transition to democracy.

She was a political correspondent for the New York Observer for eight years, and her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica, The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Nation, and the New York Daily News.

She graduated from Yale University, cum laude, with honors.

She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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Andrea Bernstein appears in the following:

Is Donald Trump's Historic Felony Conviction Just a Part of Our New Political Normal?

Monday, June 03, 2024

A majority of voters polled about Donald Trump’s felony conviction say the outcome of his hush money trial didn’t sway their opinion of the former president.

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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024.

The Courthouse Report of the Trump Guilty Verdict

Friday, May 31, 2024

NPR's Andrea Bernstein reports on the guilty verdict for President Trump from her vantage point from the courtroom.

Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day's proceedings in his trial Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York.

Trump's 'Hush Money' Trial Wrapping Soon

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Andrea Bernstein reports on the latest news from Trump's so-called "hush money" trial, where witness testimonies have finished.

Defense rests in Trump's hush money trial

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Witness testimony has concluded in Donald Trump's hush money trial. The defense has rested without calling the former president to the stand.

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The criminal trial of former President Trump is nearing an end in New York

Monday, May 20, 2024

By Steve Inskeep / Andrea Bernstein

Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen will take the stand once more in the hush money trial of the former president. The jury could begin deliberating this week.

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Trump's Former 'Fixer' Takes the Stand

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Andrea Bernstein reports on the latest from Trump's hush money trial.

Michael Cohen was cross-examined today at Trump's hush money trial

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Michael Cohen is back on the stand for a second day of testimony against former President Donald Trump. Cohen testified about receiving payments that prosecutors argue are false business records.

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Former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen will be back on the witness stand

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

By Michel Martin : NPR / Andrea Bernstein

Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen is set to be cross-examined Tuesday in the criminal trial of the former president.

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Michael Cohen gave new context for events in Trump's hush money trial

Monday, May 13, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, testified that he worked to keep negative stories about Trump out of the media and reduce the impact of the Access Hollywood Tape ahead of the 2016 election.

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Stormy Daniels faced cross examination in hush money trial

Thursday, May 09, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Defense attorneys wrapped up their cross examination of Stormy Daniels. She held her ground, saying she had sex with Trump and was paid to keep quiet about it in the waning days of the 2016 campaign.

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Trump's 'Hush Money' Trial Continues

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Andrea Bernstein reports on the hush-money trial.

Stormy Daniels to continue testifying at Trump N.Y. trial when it resumes Thursday

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

By Leila Fadel / Andrea Bernstein

The adult film actress testified Tuesday in Donald Trump's criminal trial, with details about an alleged sexual encounter that prompted the ex-president's lawyers to ask for a mistrial. It was denied.

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Stormy Daniels took the stand today in Trump's criminal trial in New York

Tuesday, May 07, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

The woman at the center of the hush money scandal, adult film star Stormy Daniels testified on Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York.

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Judge tells Trump he'll send him to jail if he violates his gag order again

Monday, May 06, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Judge Juan Merchan says former President Donald Trump violated a gag order in the New York criminal trial for a 10th time, threatening the next violation could land the presidential candidate in jail.

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Witnesses in Trump's hush money trial reveal a world of 'extortion'

Saturday, May 04, 2024

By Scott Simon : NPR / Andrea Bernstein

Beyond former President Trump's actual criminal trial, witnesses this week have revealed a world of money exchanged for potentially damaging stories.

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Former White House adviser Hope Hick testifies in Trump's criminal trial

Friday, May 03, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Hope Hicks, a Trump-era White House adviser and communications director, is testifying in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial. Hick's name has come up several times before taking the stand.

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Trump lawyers tried to discredit witness who represented 2 women in hush money trial

Thursday, May 02, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Testimony continued in Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York. His lawyers tried to discredit a witness who represented the two women at the center of the allegations against the former president.

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The 2nd week of testimony is about to begin in Trump's N.Y. hush money trial

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

By Leila Fadel / Andrea Bernstein

Prosecutors say former President Donald Trump conspired to alter the outcome of the 2016 election by paying hush money to bury negative stories, and then covered it up by falsifying business records.

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David Pecker testified on secret payments and buried stories in Trump hush money case

Thursday, April 25, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker said in court he knew he was violating campaign finance law when he made payments to hide damaging information about Donald Trump in 2016.

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Jurors heard opening statements from both sides in Trump's hush money trial

Monday, April 22, 2024

By Andrea Bernstein

Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial began today in New York. Outside the courtroom, Trump complained about the proceedings.

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