Amy Argetsinger
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Amy Argetsinger is a staff writer for the Style section of The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

. She shares the column known as "The Reliable Source" with Roxanne Roberts
Roxanne Roberts
Roxanne M. Roberts is a style writer for the Washington Post. She shares "The Reliable Source" column with Amy Argetsinger. She is a regular panelist on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait.....

. The two appeared regularly on Friday evening segments of MSNBC's Tucker before the show was cancelled. They still appear on WRC-4 on Friday afternoons.

Early life

Amy Argetsinger is a native of Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

. She attended the St. Agnes School (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School), graduating in 1986, after which she attended the University of Virginia, earning a degree in Political and Social Thought in 1990. Ms. Argetsinger was named an Echols Scholar, an honors program for incoming students at the University of Virginia. She edited the school's weekly paper The Declaration.

Journalist career

Argetsinger started her journalism career in 1991 in the Illinois/Iowa Quad-Cities, at the Rock Island Argus and Moline Daily Dispatch. She joined The Washington Post in December 1995 as a Metro staff writer in the paper's Annapolis bureau, and later covered higher education. Just prior to her "Reliable Source" appointment in 2005, she covered the West Coast for the Post's National staff as Los Angeles bureau chief.

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