Draft:Laura A. Bliss

• Comment: Sourcing does not establish either WP:GNG or WP:NJOURNALIST. Most of the sourcing here are just articles written by the subject and are used to say "she wrote an article here," which isn't great. The discussion around Quarantine Atlas could potentially be used to meet the second criteria of WP:NJOURNALIST, but that isn't clearly established in the article itself. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 15:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Doesn't meet WP:NJOURNALIST. Sources appears to be WP:SELFPUB. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 09:59, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

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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.

Her writing has been praised as achieving “a narrative writer’s greatest goal, which is to make a reader keep reading to find out what happened.” Her book, The Quarantine Atlas, a compilation of Covid-19 maps and accompanied narratives, has been called a “visual archive of an unprecedented moment of spatial constraint, and the way we lived those limits in our homes, neighborhoods, and cities.”

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 Bloomberg Businessweek published Bliss’s articles detailing Yosemite National Park concessionaire Aramark’s shortcomings. Her findings later became the subject of a Bloomberg Originals short

Also in 2024, Bliss, with the staff of Bloomberg Businessweek, 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 an invited 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. The underlying series of articles was named an Online Journalism Award finalist by the Online News Association.

In 2022, Bliss was asked to write and host the award-nominatedBloomberg 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 is currently an editor and writer at Bloomberg Businessweek.