Peabody and duPont-Columbia award–winning journalist Andrea Bernstein is Co-Host of the Trump, Inc. Podcast, a co-production with ProPublica. She is the author of the forthcoming book AMERICAN OLIGARCHS: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (Norton, January 2020, AndreaBernsteinBook.Com)
Bernstein covers the business of the Trump administration, and, with her colleague Ilya Marritz, has broken 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.
Shows and Blogs:
Andrea Bernstein appears in the following:
Monday, February 22, 2021
By
Andrea Bernstein /
Steve Inskeep
The Supreme Court has declined former President Donald Trump's request to further delay the enforcement of a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney for Trump's financial records.
Friday, February 12, 2021
By
Andrea Bernstein
Former President Donald Trump faces numerous legal problems now that he's out of office. There are at least two state-level investigations tied to Trump — one in New York, the other in Georgia.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
A birth certificate, a bar receipt, a newspaper ad, a board game, a Ziploc bag of shredded paper, a pair of museum tickets, some checks, and a USB drive. The series finale of Trump, Inc.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Trump, Inc. co-hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz join us on President Trump’s last day in office.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
When Trump leaves office, we will no longer have a president who can profit from his family business while also running the country.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Andrea Bernstein talks to David Fahrenthold and Zach Everson about what's next for President Trump's private businesses. Plus: An announcement on the future of Trump, Inc.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Trump Inc. co-hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz talk about the president's pardons so far.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
President Trump has pardoned a member of his extended family: Charles Kushner, a real estate mogul from New Jersey.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Legal troubles are following Trump out of the White House.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
As the Trump campaign wages a haphazard legal campaign against the rightful outcome of the 2020 election, the Trump administration is working to remake the federal bureaucracy.
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Journalists and Trump Inc. hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz join us to discuss their years of reporting into corruption within the Trump administration.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Trump, Inc. co-host Andrea Bernstein sits down with Kai Wright, to discuss how American history informs the 2020 election.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The story of corruption in the Trump administration isn’t just about individual people or their actions. It's how Trump's way of doing business has pervaded our entire democracy.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Trump, Inc. co-host Andrea Bernstein sits down with Kai Wright, host of The United States of Anxiety, to discuss how American history informs the 2020 election.
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann offers a new account of the inner workings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump.
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
We look at how President Trump transformed the White House.
Thursday, October 01, 2020
Kushner Companies received a near-record sum from the government-backed lender. Should they default, taxpayers could be forced to foot a majority of the bill.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
President Trump likes talking about voter fraud. He also likes filing lawsuits. Now his campaign is filing lawsuits across the country, citing the alleged dangers of voter fraud.
Saturday, September 12, 2020
The story of the long, strange wind-up to the attack that remade the world… and the chances we had to stop it. A new series from HISTORY and WNYC Studios.
Friday, August 28, 2020
After four nights of speakers making the case for Trump, the President addressed a packed White House Rose Garden.