In 1989, after a year of freelancing as a weekend reporter for
CNN's Washington Bureau, McIntyre was hired by WUSA-TV, Channel 9 in Washington as host and senior writer of the Sunday morning news feature magazine show
Capital Edition, where he was awarded two local Emmy awards for his work. In May 2011, while freelancing as a fill-in anchor at
NPR, McIntyre handled all the live broadcasts of the U.S. raid that killed
Osama bin Laden, and shortly thereafter was hired as a staff newscaster, writing and reading newscasts at the bottom of each hour during NPR's flagship program
All Things Considered. In 2014 McIntyre joined the Washington bureau of
Al Jazeera America, a new cable network funded by the government of Qatar, staffed with veteran U.S. journalists, and intended to appeal to an American audience. McIntyre returned to covering the Pentagon and national security, until the network folded in 2016. McIntyre then was hired by the
Washington Examiner, a conservative web-based news site, where he writes a newsletter, Daily on Defense, which is emailed to more than 30,000 subscribers each weekday morning, and also contributes a weekly article to the
Washington Examiner magazine. == 9/11 ==