Jay Carney is stepping down as White House press secretary, President Barack Obama announced on Friday. 

Obama said Carney told him of his decision in April, and Carney later said he plans to leave the position in mid-June. 

The President announced that deputy press secretary Josh Earnest will step into the role. 

Obama considers Carney "one of my closest friends." 

"He's got good judgment. He has good temperament and he's got a good heart, and I will miss him a lot," Obama said. 

Carney previously spent 21 years in journalism, including a stint as Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, and Obama noted that he went from one of those asking the questions to the person behind the podium in the White House briefing room. 

He is Obama's second press secretary during the more than five years of his presidency. 

Carney took over in 2011 when Robert Gibbs stepped down, and has been Obama's chief spokesman through budget battles with Congress, the 2012 reelection, the rocky Obamacare rollout, the controversy over the Benghazi terror attack, the Edward Snowden NSA leaks, and now the scandal engulfing the Veterans Affairs Department. 

"It's been an amazing experience," Carney told reporters. 

"In midlife you don't often make a whole new set of friends, and not just friends, but people you would fight by and for under any circumstances and that's certainly what I have been lucky enough to get over these past five and a half years," he said. 

Carney said that he's had discussions about what's next for him but hasn't made any firm decisions. 

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Jay Carney?
2. What is happening to him?
3. When?
4. What is he going to do?
5. Who made the announcement?
6. When?
7. Do he and Obama get along?
8. What did Obama say about his judgment?
9. When did he become press secretary?
10. Was he Obama's first press secretary?
11. Who was the first?
12. What did Carney do before?
13. How long was he a journalist?
14. Did he write for any magazines?
15. What did Obama joke about regarding his old career?
16. Was he the press secretary during the 2012 race?
17. How many years has Obama been president?
18. Did Carney enjoy being press secretary?
19. Who will do the job now?
20. What is his current role?

Numbered answers:
1. White House press secretary
2. He is stepping down
3. mid-June
4. He hasn't made any firm decisions.
5. President Barack Obama
6. Friday
7. Yes
8. He's got good judgment.
9. 2011
10. No
11. Robert Gibbs
12. journalism
13. 21 years
14. Time magazine
15. he went from one of those asking the questions to the person behind the podium
16. Yes
17. more than five
18. Yes
19. Josh Earnest
20. deputy press secretary