Who is Julie Pace?

A round of applause for Julie Pace, the hard-hitting journalist for the Associated Press (AP) who has been distributing real news about the ever-exhausting U.S. government.

AP announced her promotion, and as her Twitter bio reads, she is: “Washington Bureau Chief for The Associated Press. Nine year survivor of the White House beat. Proud Northwestern grad. Long-suffering Bills fan.” We know she has a great sense of humor as well as strong qualifications to manage and lead the AP newsroom.

At only 35 years old, she is impressively already an experienced reporter. Her new promotion gives her the power of coordinating the AP reporting staff to investigate and cover stories in order to spread the news to other media outlets.

Besides her job reporting and managing at AP, who is Julie Pace? Here are five facts you need to know about one of the #WomenThatDo in journalism.

1 She began her career as a reporter in 2003.

Pace actually started at South Africa’s only independent television network. She then spent two years as a political reporter at The Tampa Tribune and its partner television station, WFLA.

2 She joined AP in 2007.

She began at AP as a multimedia reporter, doing live video coverage of 2008′s Election Day and former President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

3 She is from New York.

Pace lived in Buffalo, New York, but moved to Washington D.C. to cover the Obama administration for AP in 2009.

4 She was the White House correspondent for AP.

In 2013, Pace was given the White House correspondent job at AP, becoming responsible for the overall coverage of the Obama presidency. She was the lead reporter on the 2016 campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Also in 2013, she won the White House Correspondents’ Association Merriman Smith award for explaining the Obama campaign’s approach to voter turnout.

And she won the Oliver S. Gramling award for journalism, AP’s highest internal honor, for her analyses of the 2016 election.

5 She was married in 2014.

Fun facts about her personal life: Julie Pace married Michael William Ferenczy, Ph.D. in 2014. He is a senior associate at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. They both are involved in the political scene in Washington D.C., as his company serves governments as well as non governmental organizations, not-for-profits and businesses.

Julie Pace continues to thrive and inspire as a powerful and successful woman in journalism. Best of luck to her in her new position at AP. We have faith that she will continue to provide important, honest, unbiased news to the public.