Cynthia Cotts

Who is Cynthia Cotts?

Cynthia Cotts is a journalist who began working in the New York publishing world in the late 1980s and has extensive experience on the legal and media beats. She is currently under contract with New York magazine staff writer Gabriel Sherman to fact-check his unofficial biography of Fox News head Roger Ailes. After a six-month stint in 2010 working as the senior editor of Paros Life, a monthly magazine published on the Greek island of Paros, she returned to New York and began working as a writer for legal clients, including Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Columbia Law School. She worked as a legal reporter at Bloomberg News from 2006 to the end of 2009. Before that, she was a senior editor at The American Lawyer in addition to serving as a faculty member of the Columbia School of Journalism. From 1998-2004, she wrote Press Clips, a regular column analyzing the American press, which was published by The Village Voice. She previously worked as a staff writer and columnist for the National Law Journal and as a fact-checker at Spy, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.