Robin Amer Email & Phone Number

Robin Amer is an award-winning journalist with two decades of professional experience in digital, broadcast and print media. Robin is best known as the creator of USA Today’s critically acclaimed investigative podcast The City, which over two seasons explored how power works in urban America. The show was named a best podcast of the year by the New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times, Quartz, and others, peaked at No. 6 on the Apple Podcast charts, and won the WNYC Podcast Accelerator competition. She also spent three years as a senior producer for audio features at the Washington Post, where she edited ambitious investigative and enterprise stories for the daily news podcast, Post Reports, as well as standalone narrative podcast series like Field Trip, a show about the messy past and uncertain future of America's national parks. During her time at the Post Robin won or was a finalist for a prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for three consecutive years, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.A rigorous editor specializing in enterprise and investigative narrative series, a skilled manager of people, teams and production workflows, and a thoughtful, supportive collaborator, Robin would be an asset to any aspiring team.

Listed skills include Radio Producing, Broadcast Journalism, Radio, Multimedia, and 14 others.

• Editor

  Freelance

  Oct 2024 - Present - Chicago, Illinois, United States

  Editor for hire serving a variety of national and local print and audio outlets and specializing in narrative, enterprise and investigative projects.