Carrie Sheffield is an American columnist, broadcaster and policy analyst. Sheffield is a former editorial writer for The Washington Times, political writer for Salon and former reporter for POLITICO and The Hill.
Sheffield formerly worked for syndicated columnist Robert Novak before joining the editorial board of The Washington Times under Tony Blankley, writing editorials on domestic and foreign policy and politics. She covered the 2008 presidential race, including an interview with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, during which he stated that former president Bill Clinton had damaged Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Sheffield has defended the Tea Party movement, writing in USA Today: "While a few strident Tea Partiers are guilty of fanaticism, the overwhelming majority of these activists are motivated by a kernel of truth in their worries that federal spending as a share of the national economy has risen under President Obama and would have escalated further under a Democratic Congress. History is replete with examples, from the former Soviet Union to East Germany, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc., that illustrate Tea Partiers' legitimate fears. When government encroaches on commercial liberties, the end result is a failed civil state. Economic and civil liberties go hand in hand." Sheffield researched economic policy for Edward Conard, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and founding partner of Bain Capital. She spoke at the U.S. Senate alongside key senators in favor of landmark tax reforms passed by Congress in 2017.
Television
Sheffield has provided guest political analysis for national television networks, including Fox News, Fox BusinessCNN and MSNBC. She interviewed then-House Speaker Paul Ryan about conservative approaches to combating poverty during programming on the mainstage of the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference airing live on CSPAN. She encouraged 2018 midterm voter turnout for ABC News and has been a featured guest on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and PBS's The McLaughlin Group
Entrepreneurship
In 2015, Sheffield founded , a digital news network described by The Wall Street Journal as a media startup "inspiring millennials to find their voices amid a new digital landscape." In 2018, Entrepreneur magazine ran a podcast feature about Bold TV's “exceedingly rare” trademark victory over a digital news network announced by the multi-billion dollar media and entertainment companies MGM and TEGNA.
Awards
In 2006, Sheffield completed a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin studying German politics, economics, media, history and culture. In 2009, Sheffield won funding from Harvard University to serve as a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post in Israel. In 2015, Sheffield was named the Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow by the Competitive Enterprise Institute In 2018, Sheffield was named a winner of the William F. Buckley Awards by America’s Future Foundation, and named a Most Inspiring New Yorker by the popular social tech app Bumble. In 2019, Sheffield was listed in Maverick PAC's “Future 40” class of influential young conservatives.
