AMY CHOZICK
Author and Journalist
MY BIO
Amy Chozick is a writer-at-large for The New York Times, writing about the personalities and power struggles in business, politics and media. She is co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix original series “The Girls on the Bus,” inspired by her New York Times best-selling memoir "Chasing Hillary.”
Previously, Ms. Chozick was a national political correspondent at the Times and the paper’s lead reporter covering Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential election, a position she assumed in July 2013. She writes frequently for The New York Times Magazine and her stories have appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour and other publications.
Ms. Chozick also served as a business reporter at the Times covering the world’s largest media companies. In this role, she covered the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids and wrote extensively about the rapidly changing media landscape.
Prior to joining the Times in 2011, Ms. Chozick was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in a variety of fields for eight years. Most recently, she wrote about the entertainment industry as a features writer covering Hollywood. Prior to that, she was a political reporter traveling with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s traveling press corps covering the 2008 presidential election. She also was a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo writing about business and consumer culture in Japan and Northeast Asia.
Ms. Chozick served as a consultant on the Netflix political drama, “House of Cards,” advising the writers on the development of the female journalist characters. She was recently profiled in New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Elle and interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross and ABC News’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. She is a frequent contributor to CBS News, MSNBC, CNN and NPR.
In 2017, Ms. Chozick won the William Randolph Hearst Fellows Award. She is also the recipient of a Front Page Award for beat reporting and has been recognized by the Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features Writing Competition.
Born in San Antonio, Ms. Chozick moved to New York in 2001 with no job, no apartment and a stack of clips from The Daily Texan. She lives on the Lower East Side with her husband and son.