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chicago, illinois, united states
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Claim your profileEmily Schmall is an award-winning correspondent for The New York Times based in Delhi. She has covered news on five continents. Born in Chicago, she studied Spanish Literature at Bard College and Mesoamerican Art and the Spanish language at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She later studied business, economics and journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. After graduation from Columbia Emily worked at Bloomberg and subsequently spent several years as a foreign freelance correspondent for Reuters, The New York Times, Global Post and AP. She reported from the U.K., Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Argentina and Liberia, where she was also country director of the NGO New Narratives. She won awards for her coverage of Ebola in Dallas and for an investigation of sexual assaults in U.S. public schools. Emily's writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, BBC, The Miami Herald, Newsweek, the Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, World Policy Journal, Salon and Forbes.






Master Of Arts, Economics, Journalism at Columbia University - Graduate School Of JournalismGraduated: 2009
Bachelor Of Arts, Spanish at Bard CollegeGraduated: 2004
Literature at Universidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoGraduated: 2004