Amy Chozick

Amy Chozick (born ) is an American writer, journalist and showrunner who previously worked for the ''New York Times.'' She is the author of a memoir, ''Chasing Hillary'', about covering Hillary Clinton, and co-created the adaptation of the book to television series, ''The Girls on the Bus''.

Early life and education

Chozick grew up in a Jewish family in San Antonio, Texas, where she began working in journalism writing for the ''San Antonio Express-News'' as part of a program offering school credit for working off campus. She attended Tom C. Clark High School, then the University of Texas at Austin, 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 ''The Wall Street Journal''. In 2008, she was a member of the traveling press of both Clinton and Barack Obama. That year, Chozick wrote an article in ''The Wall Street Journal'' questioning whether Obama was too thin to be elected president, given the average weight of Americans; commentator Timothy Noah wrote that this was a racist dog-whistle that invited white people to focus on his appearance and consequently "dwell on…his dark skin."

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 said that as a result of her reporting on Clinton, specifically on her clinching the Democratic nomination for president in June of that year, that 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. With Julie Plec, Chozick adapted the book as a television series called ''The Girls on the Bus''.

In 2023, Chozick wrote a story extolling the putative transformation of Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted for fraud in her role with Theranos, into a harmless suburban housewife. The piece was accompanied by glamorous photos of Holmes, including holding her two babies with a backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. Some media criticized Chozick for whitewashing a white collar criminal, but others said the profile succeeded in capturing Holmes in the act of fooling the journalist assigned to profile her.

Personal life

As of 2014, Chozick lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her husband, Robert Ennis. Chozick and Ennis have a son, born in 2018, who she had put off having so she could cover Clinton's presidential campaign.

Works

Bibliography

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

Filmography

* ''The Girls on the Bus''

References

External links

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American political journalists
Jewish American journalists
Living people
The New York Times people
Journalists from San Antonio
University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Journalists from Texas
21st-century American Jews