Amanda Finnegan

About

Amanda Finnegan is the deputy features editor at The Washington Post, overseeing the newsroom's award-winning travel, food, lifestyle and advice coverage. In 2019, she launched By The Way, The Post’s travel destination for news, tips and city guides. She's been at The Post since 2012, where she started as a homepage editor, managing breaking news and enterprise content for desktop, mobile and app homepages. She’s also been an editor on the Politics and Local desks.Before moving to D.C., Amanda spent more than three years in Las Vegas reporting on the casino industry for the Las Vegas Sun and helped launch VegasInc.com, the paper’s business news website. Shortly after its launch, the site won an Editor and Publisher award for best business news site. Amanda has reported on multibillion-dollar resort openings, profiled top executives, investigated scandal in the city’s nightlife industry and analyzed the financial crumbling of one of Las Vegas’ most affluent communities. In 2011, she was named the Nevada Press Association's Journalist of Merit. She’s covered education at The Philadelphia Inquirer, helped produce Bloomberg's government news initiative, reported on trends at the world’s largest technology expo and traveled to the Middle East to learn about the Iraqi refugee crisis through displaced persons.