Miranda Spivack

About

Veteran journalist specializing in government, politics, accountability stories, data-based stories and features. Former Washington Post editor and reporter. Alicia Patterson Foundation grantee 2021; four-time grantee, Fund for Investigative Journalism; former Journalist in Residence at the University of Florida's Brechner Center for Freedom of Information. Author of "State Secrets," about the rise in state and local government secrecy, for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and now a book sparked by the series to be published by New Press in 2025. I speak often on open government and First Amendment issues. In 2019, I taught journalism in North Macedonia as a Fulbright Scholar. I freelance for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Bethesda Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, among others. From 2016-2018 I was the Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University. My stories, and stories I edited, led to changes in the way government conducts its work, including regulation and oversight of development, campaign finance, the environment and public safety. I have extensive experience as an editor and manager at The Washington Post and at The Gazette Newspapers, a Post subsidiary, where I managed a 50-person news operation. I led reporting teams at both news organizations that won awards for stories. As a reporter, I have won numerous individual awards. Previously, I worked as a Washington correspondent for The Hartford Courant. I also managed large projects for The Post, including editing community resource guides for nine jurisdictions. In Aug. 2014, I was named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster, qualifying me to teach journalism overseas. I was in the second class of journalists to be selected to attend Yale Law School for a year, thanks to the Ford Foundation. https://www.mirandaspivack.com/ revealnews.org/author/miranda-s-spivack/ https://www.sacbee.com/profile/255620821 https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/miranda-s-spivack/