Amanda Macias

Amanda Macias reports on national security subjects for CNBC.She is a 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and Finance.

Macias was a field producer in Brussels, reporting on EU political institutions and NATO.In 2013, she became a Business Insider correspondent, joining its defense industry and military team.Prior to that, in 2008, she was an on-camera reporter for KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri.In August 2010, she joined Missouri Digital News.

Before March 2018, Macias was a CBS Radio web editor.At CBS Radio, by June 2017, she was a national security reporter.

She joined CNBC's Washington office in 2018, where she was based at the Pentagon.In addition to national security, her beat included the defense industry and the intelligence community.

Macias became embroiled in the government arrest of a Pentagon counterterrorism analyst with whom she was romantically involved, according to prosecutors.The government referred to her as "Journalist 1," and Erik Wemple of the The Washington Post tied both names together, while comparing Macias to Ali Watkins.The Wall Street Journal identified a second involved journalist as Courtney Kube, a senior reporter for NBC, whom Macias involved in the leaks.NBC, like CNBC, is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal.

The analyst pled guilty to agreeing to disclose classified information because it would support Macias' career.

Macias, who comes from a military family, was born at Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, has lived in Germany, South Korea, and in Times Square, New York, and shares a home in Washington DC with her boyfriend, Henry Kyle Frese, and her cat, Harlem.