Anna Bahney
About
Anna Bahney |
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Most recently Anna covered the housing crisis and mortgage industry for USA Today. This work included stories on housing legislation, the government's take over of
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, fluctuating interest rates, rising delinquencies, changing lending
standards and the ongoing efforts by the government, financial
institutions and housing advocacy groups to mitigate foreclosures. She received two Hainer awards from the publisher for excellent reporting.
Prior to that she wrote for the The New York Times, where she was a contributing writer and reporter for seven years. With stints as a lifestyle and social trends reporter for Thursday Style and a residential real estate reporter for the Real Estate section, Anna has reported on subjects as varied as rock crawling in Jellico, Tenn., hiking the Amalfi Coast in Italy, RFID tagging in Cambridge, Ontario, adopting dogs in Pasadena and buying real estate in Manhattan. She even jumped out of an airplane (and never appreciated a back-up plan more). Anna taped several television spots on real estate for the nascent New York Times Television. Anna wrote business media criticism for the Columbia Journalism Review as a fellow at the publication while earning her Master of Arts degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism with a concentration in Business and Economics. Her coursework included corporate finance, accounting and value investing. Anna currently lives in the leafy climes of Logan Circle in Washington D.C. While working at the Times, she was ensconced in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Anna was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. with degrees in theater and sociology, she moved to Europe, where she studied acting, dance and Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theater in Russia and, later, founded a theater company in London. She has contributed to two books: an oral history to "Tower Stories: The Autobiography of September 11th," (Revolution Publishing, 2004) edited by Damon DiMarco and an essay about the sandhill crane migration through Nebraska to "A Leaky Tent Is A Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World" (Sierra Club Books, 2007) edited by Bonnie Tsui. |
Anna is a freelance writer with 10 years of experience at national newspapers. She has reported on real estate, social trends, youth culture and travel. In her career she has covered breaking news, developed enterprise stories and produced print, online and video content.