About

Andrea James was a reporter from September 2003 until August 2009, when she left the industry to gain a deeper understanding of business and to try something new.

In her most recent reporting job, Andrea  covered Seattle companies large and small, including Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nordstrom and Amazon.com, for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The New Jersey native started her career as a bona fide computer nerd. She majored in computer information systems at American University in Washington, D.C., and worked as a data analyst and Web designer to put herself through school. She also minored in physics because it was “fun.”

When she began writing for The Eagle, the student newspaper at American, she became addicted to meeting new people and getting scoops. Post-graduation, James turned down a lucrative federal government IT job to pursue a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University, near Chicago.

Prior to starting at the P-I in Fall 2006, James had written for the Washington Business Journal; Bloomberg News in London, where she cut her chops reporting on London Stock Exchange businesses; and Religion News Service in Washington, D.C., where she covered the influence of religion on politics, among other things.

Her first daily newspaper job was at the Mobile Press-Register on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where she reported on business and survived two hurricanes, including Katrina in August 2005.

She enjoys hiking and skiing and exploring new places. In 2001, she appeared on “Wheel of Fortune” and won an all-expenses-paid trip to Antigua, which she still claims is one of her biggest achievements.

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