Amy Goldstein (journalist)

Last updated
Amy Goldstein
Amy Goldstein 2018 (cropped).jpg
BornApril 8, 1957  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (age 64)
Website http://www.amygoldsteinwriter.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Amy Goldstein (April 8, 1957) is an American journalist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2002, [1] and was nominated for the same award again in 2009. [2]

Contents

Early life

Amy Goldstein was born on April 8, 1957. She grew up in Rochester, New York. She worked for The Baltimore Sun and the Virginian-Pilot. [3] She graduated from Brown University. She was a Nieman Fellow. [4] She was a Wilson Public Policy Scholar. [5]

Career

She is an investigative journalist for the Washington Post. [6]

Works

Related Research Articles

Anne Applebaum American journalist and historian

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

Susan Schmidt is an American investigative reporter with the Wall Street Journal. She is best known for her work at The Washington Post, where she worked from 1983 until leaving for the Wall Street Journal.

James V. Grimaldi is an American journalist, investigative reporter, and Senior Writer with the Wall Street Journal. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, twice, for investigative reporting in 1996, with the staff of the Orange County Register, and in 2006, for his work on the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal while working for The Washington Post.

Malcolm Johnson was an American investigative journalist of the 1940s and 1950s. His 24-part series in the New York Sun, Crime on the Waterfront, won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 1949.

Elizabeth Strout American writer

Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. Born and raised in Portland, Maine, her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her seven novels.

Mei Fong

Mei Fong, also known as Fong Foongmei (方凤美), is a Malaysian-Chinese-American journalist who was staff reporter for the China bureau for The Wall Street Journal. In April 2007, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as part of the bureau's "sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution." She is "believed to be the first Malaysian ... to achieve this distinction."

Barton Gellman American journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic

Barton David Gellman is an American and author known for his reports on September 11 attacks, on Dick Cheney's vice presidency and on the global surveillance disclosure. Beginning in June 2013, he authored The Washington Post's coverage of the U.S. National Security Agency, based on top secret documents provided to him by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. He published a book for Penguin Press on the rise of the surveillance-industrial state in May 2020.

Karen DeYoung

Karen DeYoung is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, and is the associate editor for The Washington Post.

Tony Bartelme, an American journalist and author, is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been a finalist for four Pulitzer Prizes.

Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning member of The Washington Post's investigations unit. He graduated from Stony Brook University, with a B.A. in history and has a M.S. from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Higham also earned an A.S. in criminal justice at Suffolk County Community College.

Sarah Cohen (journalist) American journalist and professor

Sarah Cohen is an American journalist, author, and professor. Cohen is a proponent of, and teaches classes on, computational journalism and authored the book "Numbers in the Newsroom: Using math and statistics in the news."

Duff Wilson is an American investigative reporter, formerly with The New York Times, later with Reuters. He is the first two-time winner of the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, and a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit, online journalism organization focusing on issues related to criminal justice in the United States, founded by former hedge fund manager Neil Barsky and with former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller as its first editor-in-chief. Its website states that it aims to "create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system." Susan Chira has been editor-in-chief since 2019. It has twice won the Pulitzer Prize.

Dana Canedy American journalist, author, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize winner and administrator

Dana Canedy is an American journalist, author, and publishing executive who worked at the New York Times for over 20 years, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. She was appointed senior vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster's flagship eponymous imprint in July 2020. She is the first African-American to head a "major publishing imprint".

Hannah Dreier American journalist

Hannah Dreier is an American journalist who writes for The Washington Post. She was the Venezuela correspondent for Associated Press for three years and later covered immigration for ProPublica, where she won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Megan Twohey

Megan Twohey is an American journalist with The New York Times. She has written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Twohey's investigated reports have exposed exploitive doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of abandoned unwanted adopted children. Her investigative reports have led to criminal convictions and helped prompt new laws aimed at protecting vulnerable people and children.

Martyna Majok Polish-American playwright

Martyna Majok is a Polish-born American playwright who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living. She emigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New Jersey. Majok studied playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and Juilliard School. Her plays are often politically engaged, feature dark humor, and experiment with structure and time.

Martha Mendoza is an Associated Press journalist whose reporting has helped free over 2,000 enslaved fishermen and prompted action by the U.S. Congress and the White House. 

Amy Ellis Nutt is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She was the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting at The Star-Ledger on the 2009 wreck of the Lady Mary fishing vessel. She has also worked as a health and science writer for The Washington Post and a writer-reporter at Sports Illustrated.

<i>Janesville: An American Story</i> Non fiction novel

Janesville: An American Story is a non-fiction book written by Amy Goldstein and published by Simon & Schuster in 2017. It covers the city of Janesville, Wisconsin, and follows the stories of several of its working-class inhabitants from 2008 to 2013, tracing what happens after the Janesville Assembly Plant shuts down.

References

  1. Communications, Vanderbilt Division of (25 March 2019). "Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein to discuss her book, 'Janesville: An American Story,' April 3". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  2. "Finalist: Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest of The Washington Post". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Biography - Amy Goldstein". ppww.hkbu.edu.hk. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  4. "Amy Goldstein". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  5. "Amy Goldstein | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  6. "Amy Goldstein". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  7. "Book Review: Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein". USAPP. 2019-08-25. Retrieved 2021-05-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Senior, Jennifer (2017-04-19). "In 'Janesville,' When the G.M. Plant Closed, Havoc Followed". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  9. "Review: 'Janesville: An American Story,' by Amy Goldstein". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  10. "'No more good choices left': An industrial town's struggle to rebuild its working class". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  11. Marklein, Mary Beth (2017-05-09). "Janesville: An American Story, Read by a Janesville Native". Progressive.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  12. Barone, Michael (2017-04-25). "A Hollowed-Out Heartland". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  13. "'Janesville' Looks At A Factory Town After The Factory Shuts Down". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.