THE CITY NY
Alyssa Katz is an accomplished journalist with extensive experience in investigative reporting and editorial leadership focused on New York City. Currently serving as Executive Editor at THE CITY NY since February 2019, Katz leads high-impact accountability reporting, hosts podcasts, and engages in public discourse on local policy. Katz has previously held roles as Deputy Editor at THE CITY NY, Editorial Board Member at the New York Daily News, and founding editor of The New York World at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Additional experience includes teaching positions at Hunter College and New York University, editorial roles at City Limits and the Center for Reproductive Rights, and significant freelance work, including authorship of notable books. Katz holds a BA in Arts and Ideas in the Humanities from the University of Michigan and was a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University.
THE CITY NY
Launched in 2019, THE CITY is New York City’s preeminent nonprofit, nonpartisan, local news organization. Working across all five boroughs, our award-winning journalists bring deeply diverse skills and backgrounds to the task of covering New York’s neighborhoods, holding the powerful to account, and making sense of the greatest city in the world, particularly in these unprecedented times.