Amy Chozick

Chozick grew up in a Jewish family{{Cite web|last=Conrad| first=Peter | authorlink=| title= Chasing Hillary; Dear Madam President review – followers of a lost cause | issn=0261-3077 | eissn=1756-3224 | oclc=60623878 |publisher=The Guardian|date= April 29, 2018| archive-date=April 29, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429202631/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/29/chasing-hillary-amy-chozick-dear-madam-president-jennifer-palmieri-review | url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/29/chasing-hillary-amy-chozick-dear-madam-president-jennifer-palmieri-review | quote=Although Chozick began life as “a nice Jewish girl from Texas”...}} in San Antonio, Texas, where she began working in journalism writing for the San Antonio Express-News as part of a program offering school credit for working off campus. She attended Tom C. Clark High School, then the University of Texas at Austin, where she was originally a journalism major, but switched to English and Latin American studies after three weeks.

Chozick began writing about Clinton in 2007, while working for The Wall Street Journal.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/29/amy-chozick-hillary-clinton-my-part-in-her-downfall |title=Hillary Clinton – my part in her downfall |last=Siddiqui |first=Sabrina |date=2018-04-29 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2018-11-20 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} In 2008, she was a member of the traveling press of both Clinton and Barack Obama.{{cite web | url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/news/a42193/get-that-life-amy-chozick-new-york-times/ | title=Get That Life: How I Got the Hillary Clinton Beat at "The New York Times" | work=Cosmopolitan | date=22 June 2015 | accessdate=3 January 2016 | author=Filipovic, Jill}} That year, Chozick wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal questioning whether Obama was too thin to be elected president, given the average weight of Americans; commentator Timothy Noah wrote that this was a racist dog-whistle that invited white people to focus on his appearance and consequently "dwell on…his dark skin."{{Cite web |last=Taranto |first=James |date=2008-08-05 |title=Noah's Shark |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121795654750413657 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716103239/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121795654750413657 |archive-date=2023-07-16 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US}}

After writing for the Journal for eight years, she joined the Times in 2011 to write about corporate media.{{Cite news |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/the-new-york-times-amy-chozick-shifts-to-politics/ |title=The New York Times’ Amy Chozick Shifts to Politics |last=O'Shea |first=Chris |date=2013-07-02 |work=Adweek |access-date=2018-11-20 |language=en-US}} In 2013, she was promoted to the Times{{'}} political team, with a focus on Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family.{{cite web | url=http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/217279/amy-chozick-to-join-new-york-times-political-team/ | title=Amy Chozick to join New York Times’ political team | work=Poynter Institute | date=2 July 2013 | accessdate=3 January 2016 | author=Tenore, Mallary Jean | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929081604/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/217279/amy-chozick-to-join-new-york-times-political-team/ | archive-date=29 September 2015 | url-status=dead }} In 2016, she said that as a result of her reporting on Clinton, specifically on her clinching the Democratic nomination for president in June of that year, that she had received death threats from supporters of Clinton's rival in this campaign, Bernie Sanders.{{cite web | url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/nyt-clinton-reporter-is-getting-death-threats.html | title=The New York Times’ Hillary Clinton Campaign Correspondent Says She’s Being Threatened by Bernie Sanders Supporters | work=New York Magazine | date=7 June 2016 | accessdate=4 November 2016 | author=Singal, Jesse}}

She is the author of Chasing Hillary, a memoir about covering Clinton. With Julie Plec, Chozick adapted the book as a television series called The Girls on the Bus.{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=2022-02-17 |title=‘The Girls On The Bus’ Moves To HBO Max With Series Order For Drama From Julie Plec, Amy Chozick & Berlanti Prods. |url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/hbo-max-orders-the-girls-on-the-bus-julie-plec-amy-chozick-berlanti-productions-1234956139/ |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

In 2023, Chozick wrote a story extolling the putative transformation of Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted for fraud in her role with Theranos, into a harmless suburban housewife. The piece was accompanied by glamorous photos of Holmes, including holding her two babies with a backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. Some media criticized Chozick for whitewashing a white collar criminal,{{Cite web |date=2023-05-08 |title=Everyone Who Knows What Elizabeth Holmes Did Wrong, Step Forward (Not So Fast, The New York Times) {{!}} Defector |url=https://defector.com/everyone-who-knows-what-elizabeth-holmes-did-wrong-step-forward-not-so-fast-the-new-york-times |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=defector.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Onion |first=Rebecca |date=2023-05-08 |title=I Cannot Get Over the Name of Elizabeth Holmes’ Dog That She Claimed Was a Wolf |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/business/2023/05/elizabeth-homes-nyt-profile-balto-dog-mountain-lion-history.html |access-date=2023-05-12 |issn=1091-2339}} but others said the profile succeeded in capturing Holmes in the act of fooling the journalist assigned to profile her.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=You don’t need to worry about the New York Times making Elizabeth Holmes look good |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/new-york-times-elizabeth-holmes-interview-b2335218.html |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Independent |language=en}}

As of 2014, Chozick lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her husband, Robert Ennis.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/realestate/my-lower-east-side.html |title=My Lower East Side |last=Chozick |first=Amy |date=2014-06-22 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-11-20 |language=en}} Chozick and Ennis have a son, born in 2018, who she had put off having so she could cover Clinton's presidential campaign.{{Cite news |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/amy-chozick-put-off-having-a-baby-to-cover-hillary-clinton-campaign |title=I Put Off Having a Baby to Cover Hillary Clinton's Campaign—and I Don't Regret It |last=Chozick |first=Amy |date=2018-04-24 |work=Glamour |access-date=2018-11-20 |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Tilove |first=Jonathan |authorlink= |title=`For God’s sake, she’s just a nice Jewish girl from Texas.’ How Hillary Clinton misunderestimated Amy Chozick |publisher=First Reading|date=May 21, 2018 |url=http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2018/05/21/for-gods-sake-shes-just-a-nice-jewish-girl-from-texas-how-hillary-clinton-misunderestimated-amy-chozick/ |accessdate=}}

• Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling, Harper, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0062413598}}

• The Girls on the Bus

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• {{Official website|http://www.amychozick.com/}}

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