Journalist
Colleen Long is a journalist with The Associated Press, where she has covered some of the biggest stories in the country, including the White House under President Joe Biden, Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, immigration in the Trump administration, policing and the friction between police and communities they serve, stop and frisk, the NYPD, the Hudson River plane landing, terror attacks and the Harvey Weinstein criminal probe. She has worked in Washington, New York, New Orleans, Denver, Puerto Rico and Mexico City and is fluent in Spanish.
She has worked for the AP for more than 15 years as both a reporter and editor. She graduated from the University of Richmond with a degree in journalism and English. She is from a large Midwestern family and begrudgingly left Brooklyn for Washington, D.C. not long ago, where she lives with her husband, also a journalist. They have two children.
Colleen is working on a book about our cultural ignorance around pregnancy loss and how that has led to bad mental and physical health decisions nationwide, find more information on that here.
Colleen Long is a journalist with The Associated Press, where she has covered some of the biggest stories in the country, including the White House under President Joe Biden, Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, immigration in the Trump administration, policing and the friction between police and communities they serve, stop and frisk, the NYPD, the Hudson River plane landing, terror attacks and the Harvey Weinstein criminal probe. She has worked in Washington, New York, New Orleans, Denver, Puerto Rico and Mexico City and is fluent in Spanish.
She has worked for the AP for more than 15 years as both a reporter and editor. She graduated from the University of Richmond with a degree in journalism and English. She is from a large Midwestern family and begrudgingly left Brooklyn for Washington, D.C. not long ago, where she lives with her husband, also a journalist. They have two children.
Colleen is working on a book about our cultural ignorance around pregnancy loss and how that has led to bad mental and physical health decisions nationwide, find more information on that here.
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