Amy Chozick is
writer-at-large
at ''The New York Times'' focused on writing features abou
business, media and politics
Prior to her current role at the ''Times'', Chozick was a national political reporter coverin
Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign

Early life and education

Chozick grew up in a

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family in

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, where she began working in journalism writing for the '' San Antonio Express-News'' as part of a program whereby she would get school credit for working off campus. She attended

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, where she was originally a journalism major, but switched to English and Latin American studies after three weeks.

Career

Chozick began writing about Clinton in 2007, while working for ''

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''. In 2008, she was a member of the traveling press of both Clinton and

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. Previously, she worked in a number of different places, including

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. After writing for the ''Journal'' for eight years, she joined the ''Times'' in 2011 to write about corporate media. In 2013, she was promoted to the ''Times'' political team, with a focus on Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family. In 2016, she claimed that as a result of her reporting on Clinton, specifically on her allegedly clinching the Democratic nomination for president in June of that year, she had received death threats from supporters of Clinton's rival in this campaign, Bernie Sanders. She is the author of "Chasing Hillary," a memoir about covering Clinton that is bein
developed into a TV series by Warner Bros

Bibliography

*''Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling'', Harper, 2018,

Personal life

As of 2014, Chozick lives in the Lower East Side of New York City with her Irish-born husband, Robert Ennis. Chozick and Ennis have a son, who she had put off having so she could cover Clinton's presidential campaign.

References

External links

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