Jennifer Maloney

Jennifer Maloney is a print and multimedia reporter based in New York. A staff writer at Newsday since 2006, she was the lead reporter on an investigation of hazardous platform gaps on the Long Island Rail Road that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Medal for Public Service. She previously worked as a general-assignment reporter for The Miami Herald.

After the earthquake in Haiti, Maloney reported in Port-Au-Prince on the struggles and triumphs of Haiti’s radio journalists, and on a Haitian-American family trying to obtain a visa for a grandmother left homeless by the disaster. She has also conducted reporting projects in Ghana and India, where she explored the unintended consequences of the Green Revolution.

Maloney for seven years served as associate director of the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program, a summer camp for low-income high school students from across the country. There, her students broke news about contaminants in a municipal water supply, investigated elevator outages in the New York City subways and uncovered out-of-date medicines in local drug stores.

Maloney graduated from Princeton University and holds two master’s degrees in journalism—the first specializing in magazine writing, the second in politics—from the Columbia University Journalism School. A dual Canadian-American citizen, she has also lived and studied in France, Italy and Morocco.