Helene Cooper

White House Correspondent
The New York Times

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Helene Cooper was named White House Correspondent for the New York Times in November 2008, after covering the State Department since 2006. She previously worked for two years as the assistant editor of the Times' editorial page. Ms. Cooper was previously the assistant bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal's Washington Bureau, overseeing a group of reporters focusing on international economics and foreign policy. From 1999 to 2002, she was the Wall Street Journal's international economics reporter, and before that she covered economics out of the Journal's London bureau. A native of Monrovia, Liberia, Ms. Cooper published a memoir, The House at Sugar Beach, in the fall of 2008.

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