Cynthia Cotts

Cynthia Cotts is a journalist who began working in the New York publishing world in the late 1980s and has extensive experience on the legal and media beats. She is currently under contract with Vanity Fair staff writer Michael Shnayerson to fact check his unofficial biography of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, which is expected to be published by Hachette by early 2015. In 2013, she was under contract with New York magazine staff writer Gabriel Sherman to fact-check his unofficial biography of Fox News head Roger Ailes, which was published by Random House in Jan. 2014, to great acclaim and controversy. The New York Review of Books called the Ailes biography "thoroughly reported." Cotts has experience as a reporter, editor, and researcher, as well as expertise in legal matters. She understands the concept of narrative and is always looking for a higher calling.

After a six-month stint in 2010 working as the senior editor of Paros Life, a monthly magazine published on the Greek island of Paros, she returned to New York and began working as a writer for legal clients, including Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Columbia Law School. She worked as a legal reporter at Bloomberg News from 2006 to the end of 2009. Before that, she was a senior editor at The American Lawyer in addition to serving as a faculty member of the Columbia School of Journalism. From 1998-2004, she wrote Press Clips, a regular column analyzing the American press, which was published by The Village Voice. She previously worked as a staff writer and columnist for the National Law Journal and as a fact-checker at Spy, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.

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