She's the first Black woman to moderate a presidential debate since Carole Simpson in 1992. Andrea Mitchell, the NBC News correspondent who moderated last fall's Democratic debate with Welker, Rachel Maddow and Ashley Parker, doubted her colleague would be intimidated. 'Running Angry': Trump ...
As New York’s Olivia Nuzzi put it,“The President’s unprofessionalism is always revealed most clearly when he is interacting with female reporters.” Welker is an accomplished and lauded veteran reporter who excels at her job, and is qualified for the one ahead of her. Yet days before ...
Welker’s colleagues at rival media outlets also rallied to her defense. “If any other outlet started covering the political donations of *the parents* of folks who work at Fox there would be widespread outrage and rightly so,” CNN’s Jake Tappertweetedabout Fox News’ aggressive promotion ...