Shannon McCaffrey

Shannon McCaffrey is the Managing Editor, Business & Politics at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In this role, she oversees the AJC’s Business and Politics teams.

With three decades in journalism, McCaffrey has deep experience reporting and editing at the local, state, and national level. McCaffrey rejoined the AJC in 2022 as deputy managing editor for news. She had previously spent more than two years at Emory University, where she worked as senior director of health sciences communications. In that role, she helped manage COVID-19 public health communications.

McCaffrey first joined the AJC in 2012 as a reporter and rose to become a senior editor overseeing crime, courts and breaking news coverage.

Prior to joining the AJC, McCaffrey was a reporter for The Associated Press in Albany, New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. She was a key member of the AP’s national political team, covering presidential and statewide races. She also served as the AP’s Georgia statehouse correspondent, leading government coverage with a focus on accountability.

In Washington, she also covered the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Department of Justice for Knight Ridder Newspapers.

McCaffrey lives in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood with her two daughters and her dog. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a master’s degree in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia.