Draft:Laura A. Bliss

Laura A. Bliss is a journalist and editor whose work has been featured in many periodicals including The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek , Los Angeles Magazine , MIT Technology Review , Ms. , Mother Jones ,The New York Times , Sierra Magazine and several books.

Bliss is often asked to speak publicly on journalism and urban policy and has been interviewed on television and radio, and various public venues including CityLab Bloomberg 2023 Boston Public Library , Columbia University , MIT , New York University , North American Cartographic Information Society , University of Oregon , and University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library

In 2024, Bliss was announced as a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Writing, and a semifinalist for the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for her article, The Private Equity Firm Tapping America’s Spring Water, part of a Bloomberg Green series of articles investigating privatization of water. The series, Water Grab, was also named a 2023 Best in Business honoree by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

In 2023, Bliss was invited as a Fellow at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.

During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Hachette published Bliss’s book, The Quarantine Atlas. The book, which began as a series of articles appealing for reader-drawn maps at Bloomberg Media, is comprised of homemade maps and essays illustrating pandemic life throughout the world.

In 2022, Bliss was asked to write and hoste the award-nominated Bloomberg Media/iHeart Radio podcast, Bedrock, USA, a series focused on extremism in local politics.

In 2017 Bliss founded MapLab, a Bloomberg Media newsletter about maps and geography.

Bliss currently covers the environment, urban policy and politics at Bloomberg News.