Amy Singer has worked as a reporter and editor for more than 25 years focusing on legal and business journalism.  Her experience crosses multiple platforms, including newspapers, magazines, books, and online.  She also serves as an adjunct at Columbia. 

As director of editorial strategy and development for ALM Media since July 2011, she is leading the company’s efforts to reorganize editorial operations and break down the remaining divide between print and digital. She previously worked for the company for 20 years, coming on board as an American Lawyer reporter in 1986 and leaving as the magazine’s deputy editor in 2006.

In the intervening years, she began teaching at Columbia and worked as a contract editor at BusinessWeek and Thomson Reuters. She has also worked at and written for The New York Times, The Nation, and other publications.

In 2007, Singer won Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best Single Article in 2007, for her editing of “Recipe for Disaster,” an investigative feature on the misconduct and miscalculations of lawyers defending Morgan Stanley in a lawsuit brought by billionaire Ronald Perelman.   She also won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, Honorary Mention, for “Girls Sentenced to Abuse,” an investigation into the claims of assault and sexual abuse of girls held in an Alabama juvenile detention facility. The story ran in Marie Claire magazine in June 2002.

Singer attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, which she attended as the recipient of a Knight Fellowship in Law for Journalists.