Reporting.
Editing.
Clarity.
Amy Lieberman is a veteran New York City-based journalist and editor whose work has focused on foreign affairs and international development, and more recently, U.S. politics and democracy.
Amy’s writing, editing and photography have been featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Houston Chronicle, United Press International, Forbes and The Los Angeles Times, among other international news outlets. She has been a featured speaker and conference host at the United Nations, Devex World and the Columbia Journalism School.
She currently serves as the politics and society editor at national nonprofit news siteThe Conversation. Before, that, she worked as a staff reporter and newsletter editor for the international development news site Devex.
Amy is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and Macalester College, and the proud mother of two children as well as two mixed-breed dogs.
Expertise
U.S. politics editing and reporting coverage
As a politics and society editor at The Conversation, Amy commissions, trains and edits a range of leading academic scholars to produce explanatory journalism on complex topics for a mainstream audience.
Working collaboratively with these authors and other editors, Amy over the last three years has helped produce in-depth coverage of the 2024 presidential election and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Her work examines the meaning of historic Supreme Court rulings and the various legal and political questions sparked by the second Trump administration.
And she has reported on-the-ground about persistent rural poverty in West Virginia, community efforts to remediate food deserts in Oklahoma and the impact of Border Patrol checkpoints on residents of Arizona.
As an investigative reporting fellow at the Columbia Journalism School, Amy’s reporting on Exxon Mobil’s early knowledge of climate change was published in the Los Angeles Times, and also received coverage in the New York Review of Books. The story about Amy and other journalists behind this investigative series is currently being adapted into a Hollywood film.
International politics and development coverage
Amy is an experienced international journalist, who previously reported and edited stories focused on the United Nations and various international development issues, including climate change, for Devex, from 2016 through 2022. She also conducted the earliest coverage of the international aid community’s response to COVID-19.
Amy worked and reported from India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand on issues including the experiences of female monks and HIV transmission among migrants.
Amy reported on migration and violence against women and transgender people from Mexico and Guatemala in the 2010s.
She also lived in Colombia in 2012. Her coverage in Colombia for sites including PassBlue featured a range of topics related to the civil war’s impact on civilians.
Additionally, she has reported on maternal health care in Haiti and tech education in Armenia.
Editing + Speaking
Amy Lieberman is an experienced editor with a speciality in working with academics to translate their research and expertise into compelling and informative stories that can be easily syndicated for wide audiences.
She is an engaging speaker both on-camera and in-person and is available for freelance coaching and editing assignments.
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