Cynthia Cotts

Cynthia Cotts is a journalist who began working in the New York publishing world in the late 1980s and who most recently worked as the senior editor of Paros Life, a monthly magazine for ex-pats on the Greek island of Paros, in the Cyclades. In addition to her interest in modern Greek language and culture, Cotts has covered the legal and media beats in the U.S. 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.

External links

• Archives of Village Voice columns
• Meet the (Meta)Press: Cynthia Cotts 2003 interview with Cotts.

References

Paros Life sample stories, 2009-2010

• [1] “Like a Virgin: Chatting with Icon Painter Paraskevi Taloglou,” July 2010
• [2] “The Remarkably Pure Essence of Amorgos,” May 2010
• [3] “The Swirling Kiss of Spring,” by Christos Georgoussis, English translation by Cotts, April 2010
• [4] “Papa Spyros’ Plan to Save the Kastro,” March 2010
• [5] “Trekking to Aghios Antonios,” February 2010
• [6] “Aliki’s Salt of the Earth Folk Artist,” August 2009
• [7] “Folktales from Paros and Antiparos,” May 2009

Bloomberg News sample stories, 2007–2009

• [8] Story on dropping law firm revenue for 2009.
• [9] Update on the shrinking job pool for law students, even at Harvard.
• [10] Story explaining how lawyers are using social media networks.
• [11] Trend story explaining why top lawyers are defecting from top firms to boutiques.
• [12] The legal job crunch hits Harvard Law School.
• [13] Trend story on how corporations are dumping their big law firms for smaller, cheaper competitors.
• [14] Obituary for leading First Amendment lawyer Cameron Devore, reprinted in the New York Times.
• [15] Story on lucrative practice for lawyers who represent shipping companies on initial public offerings.
• [16] Story on expansion of climate change practices at U.S. law firms. A similar story appeared 18 months later in the New York Times.
• [17] 2007 story on U.S. law firms outsourcing legal work to India. A similar story appeared months later on Time.com.
• [18] 2007 story on German wine collector Hardy Rodenstock. A similar story appeared months later in The New Yorker.
• [19] 2007 story on U.S. law firms' efforts to promote gay and lesbian lawyers.

Reviews of Greek art for Bloomberg

• [20] Review of El Greco show at Onassis Center, Dec. 2009
• [21] Review of “Worshipping Women” show at Onassis Center, Jan. 2009

Village Voice sample columns, 1999–2004

• [22] On the 2004 Lingua Franca freelancers saga
• [23] On NYC papers' 2003 fight to keep their racks on the street
• [24] On the NYT's 2003 decision to rewrite its byline policy
• [25] 2003 column on Howell Raines' “republic of fear”
• [26] On photographers roughed up by police during 2003 war protest
• [27] 2002 column on the NYT's love affair with bitterness
• [28] On Nikki Finke's 2002 lawsuit against the NY Post
• [29] 2000 column, written pseudonymously, on the uses of pseudonyms. Tainty Scotch is an anagram of Cynthia Cotts.
• [30] 1999 salvo on Russ Smith's secret backer for the NY Press

False reports of Cotts being ousted from the Voice

• 'Village Voice' Management on the Warpath: Cotts and Haber Out
• [31] Gawker correction
• [32] Romenesko correction
• [33] The NY Times puts the 2004 Voice departures in perspective.

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