Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick is a staff reporter for
the New York Times. Chozick’s claim to fame came in 2007 when she started
writing extensively about Hilary Clinton’s campaign, along with the rest of her
family. In 2011, she joined the New York Times and began covering corporate
media. She has covered everything from terminal snooping at Bloomberg, to phone
hacking at News Corporation. Her piece on Jimmy Wales appeared on the front
page of The New York Times Magazine.
Amy began her career by coming to
New York with nothing, and just hoping that her newspaper clippings from the
Daily Texan would attract the attention of more prominent publications. She was
picked up by The Wall Street Journal where she was the foreign correspondent in
Tokyo—there she was able to develop a strong beat covering everything from
local car shows, to popular restaurants. She has also worked behind the scenes
of Hollywood, doing in depth research on both studio executives and movie sets.
Amy has had a very well rounded career.
Today, Amy Chozick is still sticking
to what she knows. She does not appear to have any other work with affiliated
organizations, instead she publishes strictly for the Times. Her most recent
pieces include: “Clintons Rebuild Bond with Blacks”, “Danica Patrick on Racing
Cars and Building Brands”, “Signs of Change in New Mission at Bloomberg” &
“Murdoch Divorce said to be almost final”. All of these pieces reflect the work
she has done in the past, and we can see that there is a strong influence on
politics, corporations, and even car shows (her work in Tokyo). So why is
Chozick covering a man like Jimmy Wales?
Chozick did a lot of work throughout
2012 covering the battles between Silicon Valley and Hollywood concerning
“SOPA”—an act to stop online piracy. This act would give the federal government
more power to infringe on copyrights, which people on Wikipedia believed to be
a huge threat. Jimmy Wales protested SOPA by making Wikipedia go dark—the
grassroots that emerged after Wikipedia made this opposition against the
legislation caused the act to be abandoned. Chozick had been doing lots of work
on Hilary Clinton at the time when she met Wales at the families Global
Initiative in New York. Chozick was originally supposed to do a piece surrounding
the blackout of Wikipedia, and how it influenced the end of SOPA. She was
intrigued though when she saw that Wales had moved to London and was engaged to
Garvey—she instead shifted the stories focus to a profile on Wales
specifically.
Chozick’s expertise and
qualifications seem to carry over into her article. She has received many
comments on the piece, most of which appear to be positive. Some mention that
the article focuses too much on Wales’s financial situation, but overall
readers seem to validate the importance of an ad free space and the importance
of Wales’s contributions to the internet.
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References
- Nolan, R. (2013, July 1). Behind the cover
story: Amy chozick on the "benevolent dictator" of wikipedia .The
New York Times. Retrieved from http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/behind-the-cover-story-amy-chozick-on-the-benevolent-dictator-of-wikipedia/?_r=0
- Chozick, A. (n.d.). Amy chozick:
Journalist. Retrieved from http://www.amychozick.com/
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