For those of us addicted to WNYC radio, we’ve been hearing a lot from Park Slope’s Andrea Bernstein, Political Director at WNYC, and one of the many public radio reporters covering the presidential campaign. This week, she was in Iowa reporting ont he caucuses.

Andrea Bernstein at Clinton headquarters had this to say about Clinton’s third place finish and Obama’s triumph. “A very tense night for Hillary. It looked likes Obama has been winning for the last few days…The Clinton campaign wanted an easy campaign. This is a real struggle for her. She has not been in a contested primary before. This is a new one for her. It will be interesting to watch how she handles herself in the days leading up to New Hampshire and Super Tuesday.”

From Bernstein, one can expect a very knowledgable, thorough, well-researched, well-observed approach to political journalism; she is one shrewd reporter. Bernstein is in charge of political and campaign coverage at WNYC. Since joining WNYC in 1998 Bernstein has covered national, local, and state politics.

Bernsteins’s on-air reporting just gets better and better. She has won numerous awards, including the 2003 Investigative Reporters and Editors prize for radio, the 2003 Heyward Broun Award, the 2003 Society for Professional Journalists award, for her series, with Amy Eddings, on New York’s “Handshake Hotels” for the Homeless.

In 2006-2007 Bernstein was one of 12 top U.S. journalists to win a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. Now that she’s back on the east coast, she will be covering the presidential campaign for WNYC.