Jill Colvin | Journalist

Jill Colvin is a New York-based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News and Canada’s Globe and Mail. She is happy to announce that she will soon be joining the staff of DNAinfo.com, a newly-launched local news website covering Manhattan. Last summer, Jill worked as a reporter at The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest-circulation national newspaper. Since then, she has been stringing regularly for the Daily News and other local, national and international publications.

Jill is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in national affairs and political reporting, feature writing, and new media storytelling, and won the school’s highest student award for national reporting. She also holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she studied sociology, focusing on urban issues and social theory.

Jill hopes to spend her career writing about politics, public policy, social trends, ideas, and anything else that makes her go, ‘huh.’ She’s currently torn between hard-hitting political reporting and human interest feature writing, and hopes a benevolent publication will one day allow her to do both… if there even are publications… which she’s pretty sure there will be.

Until then, Jill will be busy running around the streets of New York, knocking on doors, sneaking past security lines, and trying her best to tell the stories that matter most to New Yorkers.

She loves the energy of big cities, talking to strangers, exploring, traveling, singing obnoxiously, and trying to figure out why it is that people do the things we do.

And regardless of what the AP says, she is strongly in favor of the Oxford Comma.