Bio

Miranda S. Spivack writes extensively about state/local/federal government secrecy, which is on the rise as news coverage declines. She also writes about immigration and social justice, including a recent series for the McClatchy Newspapers on the risks to police accountability of erasing civilian criminal records. Before becoming an independent journalist whose work is published by revealnews.org, The New York Times, and the McClatchy Newspapers, she spent nearly 20 years at The Washington Post as an editor and reporter, tussling often with local officials to obtain essential documents that they preferred to conceal. While covering politics and government, she wrote about the high cost to taxpayers of out-of-court settlements; major zoning abuses; and favoritism by planning officials. She designed a ground-breaking weekly supplement that the Post replicated across the Washington region. Her work has been funded by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Alicia Patterson Foundation, where she was a fellow in 2021.She was the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University (2016-18) and was a Fulbright Scholar in North Macedonia, teaching journalism, in 2019. She was a Logan Non-fiction fellow in 2019 and is working on a book about how self-taught investigators/activists can overcome secrecy and make change in their communities. She has won numerous journalism awards, most recently the 2017 Sunshine Award from Society for Professional Journalists for her series "State Secrets," published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and USA Today. In 2015, she won Honorable Mention for Cultural Tourism, Lowell Thomas Awards, and in 2013 First Place for Local Government Reporting from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she was a journalism fellow at Yale Law School, where she received the degree of Master of Studies in Law. She has appeared on numerous radio and television programs in the Washington area on a variety of topics, including WAMU, NewsChannel8, WTOP and WMAL.

Miranda tweets from @mirandareporter

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