Education

• MSc, London School of Economics (economic history)

• B.S., Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Public Communication (magazine journalism)

Bio

Mary D’Ambrosio specializes in writing about the global economy. She was a special projects editor for Global Finance magazine, a reporter for the Associated Press in Venezuela and a correspondent and book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has also appeared in Islands, Institutional Investor, Working Woman, Working Mother, Newsday and the Miami Herald.

Prof. D’Ambrosio has worked extensively in Latin America, covering the Mexican peso crisis, the North American Free Trade Agreement and other developing country controversies and triumphs. She’s also reported from Turkey, Italy, Russia and the UK. In 2009, she founded Big World Magazine, to encourage multimedia storytelling about places. She directs a summer foreign reporting program in Istanbul.  

Magazine

Interests

• International journalism
  
• Global economy
  
• Mediterranean affairs

Courses Taught

• JRN 418       International Reporting
  
• JRN 416       Magazine Writing
  
• ENG 382      Travel Writing
  
• JRN 385       Web Journalism
  
• JRN 235       News Writing and Reporting 1
  
• JRN 200       Introduction to Journalism