Shannon Pettypiece

Shannon Pettypiece
Born	(1981-06-10)June 10, 1981 Lake Orion,Michigan,United States
Education	University of Michigan
Occupation	White House correspondent
Years active	8
Employer	NBC News2019 - present
Parent(s)	Aileen and Doug Pettypiece
Relatives	Erin Pettypiece (Sister)

Shannon Pettypieceis an American print and broadcastjournalist.She is currently Senior White House Correspondent forNBC News Digital.

Early life

Pettypiece grew up inLake Orion, Michigan,where she attendedLake Orion High School.At age 5, she began showing horses competitively and was involved in4-Has well as her high school and college equestrian teams. She attended theUniversity of Michiganwhere she was a reporter and editor atThe Michigan Daily,the university's student-run newspaper.She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in political science with a focus on Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a woodworker.

Journalism career

Pettypiece's first journalism job was as an intern forThe New York Timesin Washington, D.C.She later worked as a stringer forThe New York Timesin Detroit.She has covered local government forMiami Today Newsand health care and technology forCrain's Cleveland Business.

In 2006, she joinedBloomberg Newsin Washington covering the Food and Drug Administration. She later moved to New York where she took over coverage of the pharmaceutical industry. She has also been a contributor toBloomberg Businessweek.While at Bloomberg, she interviewed the chief executives of the world's largest health care companies, including Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, and Eli Lilly. Her reporting has taken her to China, where she went inside Chinese hospitals, research labs, and homes for a four-part series on the country's evolving health care system.

In 2010, she became a correspondent forBloomberg TV,covering the healthcare industry.

As of July 3, 2019, she is a senior White House reporter forNBC NewsDigital.