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.
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Monday, March 25, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
A judge said jury selection in Donald Trump's hush-money trial will start April 15. Separately, a New York appeals court reduced the amount Trump must post as bond and gave him more time to post it.
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Steve Inskeep /
Andrea Bernstein
It's a crucial time for former President Trump's New York trials: Will his hush money trial be delayed any further? Will he pay the half a billion dollar penalty by the Monday deadline?
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
The Manhattan District Attorney says there's no reason Donald Trump can't be tried starting in April. The former president is accused of 34 felonies in connection with covering up an alleged affair.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Former President Trump needs to find $454 million to comply with a New York ruling but says he can't find a company to put up the bond. His lawyers are asking an appeals court to stay the judgment.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Andrea Bernstein talks about the financial penalties and political benefits of former President Trump's legal trials.
Friday, February 16, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
A New York judge fined former President Donald Trump and his companies $355 million, handing a win to New York AG Letitia James, who sued Trump and his associates after a three-year investigation.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
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A date is set for former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial revolving around hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign. Meanwhile, the Georgia election interference case is caught up in an effort to disqualify the prosecutor.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in New York criminal court Thursday. The case is related to hush-money payments made to cover up a sex scandal during 2016's presidential campaign.
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Journalist Andrea Bernstein previews the Supreme Court's hearing tomorrow on whether the insurrection clause allows Colorado to remove former President Trump from the ballot.
Friday, January 26, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
A jury has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for ruining her credibility when he called her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
Friday, January 26, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Former President Donald Trump spoke for less than a minute. He insisted that his previous recorded statement about the allegations was true and that he did not intend to harm her.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Former President Trump, in brief testimony in the defamation trial brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, insisted that he stood by his previous recorded statement and didn't intend to harm Carroll.
Monday, January 22, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Former President Donald Trump may testify in New York Monday in the defamation case filed against him by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Andrea Bernstein explains what's at stake in Trump's second defamation trial.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein /
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Justine Kenin
Another New York trial against former President Donald Trump is expected to begin today: the second defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Former president Donald Trump is expected to be in a New York courtroom most of this week for a trial that will determine how much in damages is owed to writer E. Jean Carroll.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
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Andrea Bernstein
Lawyers for New York State and for former President Donald Trump will present closing arguments Thursday in the civil fraud trial involving his business practices.
Thursday, December 14, 2023
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Andrea Bernstein /
Steve Inskeep
After a 10-week civil fraud trial where Donald Trump and his three oldest children testified in public, testimony is now over. The prosecution has rested and the case will soon go to a judge.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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Andrea Bernstein
Former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial has wrapped up witness testimony and will break until closing arguments in January.
Monday, December 11, 2023
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Leila Fadel /
Andrea Bernstein
Former President Donald Trump says he will not testify in his civil fraud trial, in which prosecutors accuse him, two of his sons and their company of a decade-long loans and insurance scheme.