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Robin Amer

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Chicago
As seen in: Post Reports, The Washington Post, USA Today, Yahoo, WUSA-TV (Washington, DC), Chicago Reader, WVEC-TV (Norfolk, VA), WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL), Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, Springfield News-Leader and
Covers:  urban history, buildings, city planning, infrastructure, real estate, urban planning, architecture, built environment, transportation, cities, environment, land use
Journalist & new mama. DC by way of Chicago. Current: Senior producer @washingtonpost audio team. Previous: Host & creator of @thecitypod from @USATODAY.
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Robin Amer’s Biography

Robin Amer is a reporter based in Chicago. Much of her work deals with urban planning, the built environment and the complex lives of post-industrial cities. Her work has aired on WBEZ, Marketplace, Re:Sound and other outlets, and has been recognized by the Society for Professional Journalists and the Chicago Headline Club.

Robin spent six years as a producer at WBEZ, where she helped the station chart new ground in multimedia and digital audio production. Before that, she worked as a producer for the public radio show Open Source and as a freelance reporter in Providence, Rhode Island.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Art Semiotics and is currently a McCormick Tribune Leadership Scholar at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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