Julie Carey is the Northern Virginia Bureau Chief for News4.
Carey has been covering Northern Virginia since joining News4 in 1992. Her reporting has taken her all over the commonwealth, including Richmond, where she has covered the governor, the general assembly, and every election since 1993. She is frequently called upon to participate in political debates involving Virginia candidates.
Carey has also done extensive reporting on issues of regional interest, including sex offenders, child abuse, and the integration of women into the Virginia Military Institute. In the late 1990s, she provided daily coverage of the Kenneth Starr grand jury investigations and the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. She has also been the lead reporter on some high-profile regional trials, including those of George Huguely and sniper suspect Lee Malvo.
Prior to joining News4, Carey reported for KSDK-TV in St. Louis, WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, and KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she began her career. She graduated from Indiana University with a journalism degree.
Carey was raised in Iowa in a family of journalists. She and her husband, the managing editor for Bloomberg, live in Alexandria. Her son and daughter, both graduates of what is now known as Alexandria City High School, are attending college.
Carey is active as a volunteer in Alexandria Public Schools and in her church.
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Sanctuary cities in Virginia should lose state funding, Youngkin says
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Virginia can't keep up with unconstrained data center growth, report warns
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Spotsylvania's first Black school superintendent condemns racist text messages
The first Black school superintendent in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, said he’s received racist emails since starting the job Aug. 1. Clint Mitchell decided he needed to address it publicly with a written statement and at a school board meeting after students and some adults in the county and across the country received racist text messages after Election Day, telling mostly...
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Girl, 14, struck and killed by car in Fairfax County
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Officer shoots, kills man outside Virginia fire and police station
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Man in prison for killing ex now charged with having wife killed in Woodbridge
A man already behind bars for killing his ex-girlfriend is now accused of ordering the murder of his young wife.
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Hardly able to speak after shooting, woman saying ex's name on video may be key
A young mother can hardly speak after she was shot multiple times in Fairfax County. If she is unable to testify against her ex, investigators hope video of her saying his name will prove their case.
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Annandale man accused of posing as FBI agent at polling place on Election Day
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‘ICE out of Arlington': Fiery debate over whether policy change will help or hurt immigrants
The Arlington County Board’s decision to change the rules for how police collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement sparked heated debate. Board members say they tightened rules to protect migrants, but some in the community believe the change will help the President-elect Donald Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation. “We demand ICE out of Arlington,” people chanted at the...
