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American broadcast journalist (born 1966)

Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist, writer, and television personality.

Carlson was born and raised in Minnesota. A talented youth violinist, Carlson competed in a number of music contests before becoming a beauty pageant contestant. After winning Miss Minnesota in 1988, Carlson became Miss America for 1989. She attended Stanford University and graduated in 1990.

Carlson became a television anchor, working for several local TV stations in Virginia, Ohio, and Texas before becoming a national correspondent and anchor on CBS. She hosted the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS News from 2002 to 2005. Carlson subsequently moved to Fox News's morning show Fox & Friends, from 2005 to 2013, and The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson on Fox News from 2013 to 2016.

In July 2016, Carlson filed a lawsuit against then Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, claiming sexual harassment. Subsequently, dozens of other women also stepped forward to accuse Ailes of harassment, and Ailes resigned under pressure. In September 2016 Carlson and 21st Century Foxsettled the lawsuit reportedly for $20 million, and Carlson received a public apology. Carlson was one of the first high-publicity cases of 2016's #MeToo movement.

In 2019 she co-founded Lift Our Voices to work towards a ban on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and forced arbitration clauses in employment agreements. In February 2022, the U.S. Congress passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, a law championed by Carlson which excludes sexual assault and sexual harassment complaints from arbitration clauses, including retroactively. On 3 March 2022 President Joe Biden signed the bill into law. On 7 December 2022 he also signed into law another bill backed by Carlson, the Speak Out A

Greetings from the National Archives’ flagship building in Washington, DC, which sits on the ancestral lands of the Nacotchtank peoples. I’m David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today’s conversation with James R. Gaines about his new book, The Fifties, which looks at the 1950s not as a decade of conformity but as a time when motivated individuals pressed for change. Joining the author in conversation is journalist Margaret Carlson.

Before we begin, I’d like to tell you about two programs coming up next month on our YouTube channel.

On Tuesday, April 12, at 1 p.m., Kostya Kennedy brings us his biography of Jackie Robinson, titled True, which focuses on four transformative years in Robinson’s life. A letter Robinson wrote after an incident on a bus while he was in the Army in Texas is on display online and in the National Archives in Washington, DC, through April 20.

And on Thursday, April 14, at 1 p.m., Michael Meyer will discuss the story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed bequest of 2,000 pounds to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump‑start their careers.

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Four days ago, on Friday, April 1, the 1950 population census records were made public. At a minute past midnight, the National Archives activated a website where anyone, anywhere can freely view, search, and download the census schedules filled out 72 years ago.

We may associate census records with genealogy and family history, but taken as a whole, the census gives us a snapshot of America on the cusp of a new decade—the 1950s.

James R. Gaines takes us further into the Fifties in his new book and brings us face to face with individuals who had the courage to ask questions and call for change. They lay the groundwork for advances in gay rights, feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism.

As Gaine

Since Michael Bloomberg has pushed his plan to run for a third term through the City Council, he has also delayed publication of his second book. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a well-timed Bloomberg book hitting shelves around his next campaign.

New York Times editor and writer Joyce Purnick has been researching a biography on the mayor, called Michael Bloomberg: Mayor, Mogul, Philanthropist: The Art of Running Anything. It was previously slated to come out before Bloomberg left office on January 1, 2010.

In an email exchange last night, Purnick told me that because of this latest bend in Bloomberg’s career path, the book will come out earlier.

“Well, this development has moved up the publication date. It’s now slated to come out a little less than a year from now–a couple of months earlier than originally planned,” she wrote in an email. “So, I have to write faster!”

An election-year biography (not written by a member of Bloomberg's news organization) may help re-imagine Bloomberg's well-crafted public image.

His first book was written with Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. Bloomberg's second book was to be written with Margaret Carlson, a columnist for Bloomberg News.

American journalist

For the similarly named publicist, see Margaret Carson.

Margaret Carlson is an American journalist, political pundit, and an opinion columnist for Bloomberg News. She is known for being the first female columnist for Time magazine. She was a regular panelist for CNN's Capital Gang from 1992 until its cancellation in 2005.

Early life, family and education

Margaret Carlson was born Margaret Bresnahan to James Francis Xavier Bresnahan and Mary Catherine McCreary Bresnahan. She graduated from Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Carlson earned a B.A. degree in English from Penn State University, then worked for several years before earning a J.D. degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

Career

Carlson spent a year after college working at the U.S. Department of Labor and three other agencies. She subsequently taught third grade in Watts, Los Angeles, California, before joining Nader's raiders. After law school, she was briefly a Federal Trade Commission lawyer under Michael Pertschuk, until the Carter administration ended.

Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire, editor of the short-lived Washington Weekly, and was a reporter and member of the editorial staff for the Washington-based national weekly newspaper "Legal Times." She was managing editor at The New Republic until January 1988, when she joined Time magazine. In 1994, she became the first female columnist in the magazine's history. Carlson covered four presidential elections for Time, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg News where she writes a column.

At CNN she was a commentator on Inside Politics and, for 15 years, a panelist on The Capital Gang. She writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast.

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