Mary D'Ambrosio



International Issues, Business and Travel

I specialize in writing about international development, business and travel, and teach journalism at New York University. I'm the founding editor of Big World Magazine, an online magazine devoted to high-quality reporting about places.

As an editor at Global Finance magazine and a Latin America reporter for the Associated Press and other publications, I covered seminal events in the developing world, from the Mexican debt crisis and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Russia's emergence from the old USSR and Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.

My stories have appeared in Institutional Investor, Islands and Working Woman magazines, and in the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, the Miami Herald and the Worldpaper.

I have a B.S. in journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and a master's in economic history from the London School of Economics.

I belong to the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a not-for-profit founded by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel with the aim of keeping U.S. journalism standards high during a time of pressure and change.



A novice sailor who tries not to be spooked by tales of mid-ocean dismastings

I'm a devotee of another sport that helps me check out life at about the right speed

And a dual citizen of two great but fallible nations


© 1990-2010 Mary D'Ambrosio. All rights reserved.

Stories

Book Reviews
Myth of the Empty Frontier
Explorers' diseases wiped out native populations long before settlers arrived
Deferred Futures
Why young adults are falling behind
How - and Why - the U.S. Saved the Peso in '94
One of Mexico's top political scientists examines the bailout
Politics, Business & Finance
Peso Power
Investors are snapping up bonds in Latin America's sizzling local currencies
Latin America 2007
Top thinkers and financiers bet on the investment climate a decade hence
Dancing with the Bear
Surprising developments in Russia on the heels of Yeltsin's inaugural
Back to Work
After breast cancer, most women return
Letting Go
Currency bands fall out of fashion
Trade Warrior
Sheer stubborness could improve the U.S. trade balance
Culture & Travel
Return to the Belle Epoque
On on island near Istanbul, a developer pursues a vision of the past
Crime Comes Down Hard on Caracas as High Life Ends
A story that Venezuelans tell on their Colombian neighbors is coming true at home.