Lizzy Tomei

Editor

Lizzy Tomei is a former editor at PRI.

As GlobalPost's Editor, Lizzy Tomei oversaw editorial operations of the website's virtual newsroom, working with colleagues in Boston and internationally to cultivate distinctive, high-quality reporting from around the planet. A member of the GlobalPost team since 2012, she previously held positions as GlobalPost's Managing Editor and Breaking News Editor.

She began her career in journalism in Cambodia, where she worked first as an editor and reporter at The Cambodia Daily and later as a freelance researcher, writer and English tutor. Her reporting at the Daily between 2005 and 2007 focused on politics, human rights and crime.

Lizzy has worked as a freelance editor and writer for clients based in Southeast Asia, Central America and the United States. She reported for the nonprofit San Francisco Public Press during its founding days in 2009 and 2010. During those same years she was a board member and secretary of the Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California, one of the national organization's most active chapters.

Lizzy received a BA in English with distinction from Kenyon College and has a master's degree in security policy and international media from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. While in graduate school in 2011 and 2012, she was a senior editor of the Journal of International Affairs, a leading foreign affairs periodical, and a head teaching assistant for the school's department of statistics and quantitative analysis. A California native, Lizzy has traveled in Asia, Central and South America, South Africa, and Western Europe.

Sunset in Lima

Delightfully bad tourism slogans from around the world

Nigeria's slogan sounds like Donald Trump wrote it in a tweet: "Good people, great nation."

Delightfully bad tourism slogans from around the world
Baby giraffe

Care not where giraffes wear neckties. Care that they might go extinct.

Care not where giraffes wear neckties. Care that they might go extinct.
Subway cats London

London Tube riders pay to replace ads with cats, set example for rest of world

London Tube riders pay to replace ads with cats, set example for rest of world
Michelle Obama DNC lead

Three essential takeaways from Michelle Obama's DNC speech

Three essential takeaways from Michelle Obama's DNC speech
Chris Christie RNC

We asked Chris Christie what it means to be an American. Here's what he said.

We asked Chris Christie what it means to be an American. Here's what he said.

Big changes are coming to GlobalPost. We think you’ll like them

Read us on the web, hear us on the radio, and more happening in 2016.

Big changes are coming to GlobalPost. We think you’ll like them
China stocks

Sometimes a day at work goes so wrong, it only lasts 14 minutes

That's the length of time active trading was open on China’s stock markets Thursday — making Jan. 7, 2016 its shortest trading day ever.

Sometimes a day at work goes so wrong, it only lasts 14 minutes

New Year's Eve, without the letdown: Watch other people ring in 2016

Did your city cancel New Year's? Are you sick and staying in? You can still join the party.

New Year's Eve, without the letdown: Watch other people ring in 2016

According to the draft climate deal, we've still got options

Like this one: We could phase out fossil fuels sooner and have less global warming, or wait longer to do that and heat things up a little more.

According to the draft climate deal, we've still got options

One thousand officers are still hunting a single man in Belgium

Officials have put the city of Brussels on lockdown for a third day as authorities pursue one of the suspects in the Paris attacks.

One thousand officers are still hunting a single man in Belgium

China's online shoppers just smashed the single-day world record for sales

11/11 may have started as a holiday for bachelors, but these days it's about making billions off of bargain-hunters.

China's online shoppers just smashed the single-day world record for sales

Time for Turkey’s president to learn about sharing

For the first time since the ruling AKP came to power in 2002, Erdogan's party is now required to form a coalition government after slipping at the polls.

Time for Turkey’s president to learn about sharing

If Iraqi forces have their way, it’s going to be a bad week for the Islamic State

Iraq is launching a large-scale military offensive that it says will liberate Ramadi and regain control of Anbar province.

If Iraqi forces have their way, it’s going to be a bad week for the Islamic State

Check out these empowering portraits of drag queens in China

They're one sign popular views on gender identity might be changing.

Check out these empowering portraits of drag queens in China

Watch as Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finish their insane free climb up El Capitan

No one has ever done this before.

Watch as Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finish their insane free climb up El Capitan