Paula Reid


Paula Reid is an American journalist and attorney who is the CBS News White House Correspondent. She is one of the most prolific network news correspondents and appears regularly on CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, and CBS This Morning. She is also a fill-in anchor on CBSN.
Reid covered the Special Counsel investigation of Robert Mueller and the 2016 Hillary Clinton email controversy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Reid became known for pressing President Trump on his response to the crisis.

Early life and education

Reid was born in Akron, Ohio. In 2005, Reid earned her bachelor's degree with a dual degree in psychology and English from the College of William & Mary. In 2008, Reid graduated from Villanova University School of Law with a Juris Doctor. Reid passed the bar exams in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 2010, Reid began a Master of Bioethics from the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

CBS News

In January 2010, Reid moved to New York City and was hired as an intern at CBS News in their Investigative Unit, which began her long tenure at CBS News. Later that year in June 2010, she became a production secretary for CBS Evening News, a position she held for a year. From 2011 to 2014, Reid worked as a digital journalist based out of New York.
In 2014, Reid moved to Washington, D.C. to cover the Justice Department as a reporter for CBS News. Reid covered the 2016 Hillary Clinton email controversy. She was one of the few reporters on the ground in Charlottesville, Virginia during the Unite the Right rally, which resulted in a state of emergency being declared by Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Reid led the CBS News coverage of the Special Counsel investigation of Robert Mueller. She also started filling in as a reporter at the White House in 2017. During one of the White House press briefings, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated that Donald Trump could fire Mueller if he wanted to. Reid pointed out that this was not legally permitted, "You said the president believes he has the power to fire Robert Mueller. Because usually most legal experts believe that he would have to order Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller, and Rosenstein could, of course, refuse."
In 2018, Reid pressed Trump on his border policies. This involved pointing out that, contrary to what Trump claimed, the Trump administration family separation policy was different to that of previous administrations as the Trump policy prosecuted all individuals who arrived at the border.

CBS White House Correspondent

In April 2019, after two years of covering the beat, Reid was officially named the CBS News White House Correspondent. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Reid attended the daily Trump press briefings. In April 2020 she asked why the Trump Administration had been so slow to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, Reid asked what meaningful preparation Trump had done during the month after bringing in his China travel ban. "But what did you do with that time? You didn’t use it to prepare hospitals, you didn’t use it to ramp up testing. Right now, nearly 20 million are unemployed, tens of thousands of Americans are dead.”
In May 2020, President Trump complained about Reid's tough questioning to the New York Post, saying Reid was "Nothing like Donna Reed, I can tell you that."
Reid has worked on news broadcasts CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and Face the Nation.