Anna Bahney
Anna Bahney |
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Anna is a journalist based in Washington D.C. with more than a decade of experience at national newspapers and magazines. She covers business and social trends, producing breaking news and enterprise pieces for print, web and video platforms. As the Real Estate Reporter for USA Today, Anna covered the housing crisis and mortgage industry. This 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 and housing advocacy groups to mitigate foreclosures. She received two Hainer awards from the publisher for excellent reporting.
She served as the business reporter for the Argus Leader, a Gannett Newspaper in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and the state's largest paper. Her work focused on the significant credit card industry in Sioux Falls, as well as stories on the telecommunications, agriculture, shipping and airline industries. She began her career at the The New York Times, where she was a contributing writer for seven years. With stints as a youth culture reporter for Thursday Style and a residential real estate reporter for the Real Estate section, Anna has covered 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 also 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. This was while earning a Master of Arts degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism with a concentration in Business and Economics. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Anna graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. with degrees in theater and sociology. Following that, she studied acting, dance and Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theater in Russia and, later, co-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) 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). Anna lives with her husband and son in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington. |