Cynthia Cotts is a journalist who began working in the New York publishing world in the late 1980s. In 2013, she was under contract with New York magazine staff writer Gabriel Sherman to fact-check his unofficial biography of Fox News head Roger Ailes, which was published by Random House in January 2014.
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.
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