About
Amy Zipkin is an independent business journalist with a knack for identifying underreported trends. Her stories appear in The New York Times and other publications including Next Avenue, Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism Review.
She began her career in retailing, an experience that provided context when she later developed stories about management and the workplace. More recently Amy covers personal finance, including retirement and transportation and hospitality.
Amy earned a B.A. in English Literature and General Literature from Harpur College, Binghamton University and studied English Literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She received an M. Ed. in higher education from the University of Rochester where she first studied management.
Amy received fellowships to the National Press Foundation and Columbia University’s Age Boom Academy, a joint effort of the Columbia Journalism School and the Mailman School of Public Health.
She became proficient in the use of data in storytelling through a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Goldschmidt Fellowship.
Amy holds memberships in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the Author’s Guild and the Newswomen’s Club of New York.
You can reach Amy at amyzipkin then the “at” sign then gmail dot com. Amy’s Twitter handle is @amyzipkin. She is also on LinkedIn.
