Laura Bliss is a journalist and editor whose work has been featured in many periodicals including The Atlantic[1], Bloomberg Businessweek[2], Los Angeles Magazine[3], MIT Technology Review[4], Ms.[5], Mother Jones[6],The New York Times[7], Sierra Magazine[8]and several books.[9][10]
Bliss is often asked to speak publicly on journalism and urban policy and has been interviewed on television,[11] radio[12], and various public venues including CityLab Bloomberg 2023[13]Boston Public Library[14], Columbia University[15], MIT[16], New York University[17], North American Cartographic Information Society[18], University of Oregon[19], and University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library[20]
In 2024, Bliss was announced as a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Writing[21], 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.[22][23] The series, Water Grab, was also named a 2023 Best in Business honoree by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.[24]
In 2023, Bliss was invited as a Fellow at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.[25]
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Hachette published Bliss’s book, The Quarantine Atlas[26][27]. 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. [28][29]
In 2022, Bliss was asked to write and host the award-nominated[30][31]Bloomberg Media/iHeart Radio podcast, Bedrock, USA[32], a series focused on extremism in local politics. [33][34]
In 2017 Bliss founded MapLab[35], a Bloomberg Media newsletter about maps and geography.
Bliss currently covers the environment, urban policy and politics at Bloomberg News.[36]
- ^ Bliss, Laura (February 5, 2018). "How WeWork Has Perfectly Captured the Millennial Id". The Atlantic.
- ^ "The 15-Minute City—No Cars Required—Is Urban Planning's New Utopia". Bloomberg. November 12, 2020 – via www.bloomberg.com.
- ^ "Articles by Laura Bliss". LAmag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles. September 15, 2015.
- ^ "The startup CEO remaking City Hall". MIT Technology Review.
- ^ "Laura Bliss, Author at Ms. Magazine". Ms. Magazine.
- ^ Bliss, Laura. "The country's "most polluted air basin" braces for a Trump plan that will make things worse".
- ^ Bliss, Laura (September 21, 2017). "The Remarkable Patience of the Staten Island Bat Watchers". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-4-july-august/books/it-will-take-village-save-colorado-river
- ^ "The Future of Transportation - ARTBOOK|D.A.P." – via www.artbook.com.
- ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. July 21, 2013.
- ^ "Laura Bliss - Fox5 NYC interview - August 8, 2018" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058838930/the-pandemic-saw-a-spike-in-traffic-deaths-whats-being-done-to-stop-it
- ^ "Speakers".
- ^ "Laura Bliss — The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19". BiblioEvents. March 1, 2023.
- ^ "Digital Urbanisms - Part 2" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ Lee, Lin Sing. "Reporting on Cities With Laura Bliss". MIT Events.
- ^ "Home". nysgis.net.
- ^ "How Homemade Maps Defined the Pandemic Year - Laura Bliss, Bloomberg News, Jessica Martin" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "North America 2018 - Urbanism Next". www.urbanismnext.org.
- ^ "Author Talk: Laura Bliss of Bloomberg CityLab" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-bloomberg
- ^ "Semifinalists for the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting". 14 February 2024.
- ^ "The Private Equity Firm Tapping America's Spring Water". Bloomberg – via www.bloomberg.com.
- ^ "2023 Best in Business Honorees – Judging Comments". 28 March 2024.
- ^ Journalism, Knight Science (May 24, 2023). "Meet the KSJ Fellows: Laura Bliss". Knight Science Journalism @MIT.
- ^ Bliss, Laura (August 2, 2021). The Quarantine Atlas. Running Press. ISBN 9780762478125 – via www.hachettebookgroup.com.
- ^ Grabar, Henry (April 20, 2022). "The Tiny Geographies of Life Under Lockdown". Slate – via slate.com.
- ^ "Covid Maps Reveal Personal Pandemic Landscapes". Bloomberg. 25 January 2022.
- ^ "Powerful Maps Reflect Two Years of Covid Transformations". Bloomberg. 18 April 2022.
- ^ "2023 Online Journalism Awards Winners".
- ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index.
- ^ "Bedrock, USA Podcast - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ Racioppi, Frank (July 21, 2022). "Bloomberg Premieres New Podcast "Bedrock USA" About Citizen Involvement Gone Wild".
- ^ "Reviews For The Podcast "Bedrock, USA" Curated From iTunes". www.podparadise.com.
- ^ "MapLab: A Note from MapLab Founder Laura Bliss". Bloomberg. 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Laura Bliss - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2023-10-18.