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Amanda Zamora

Amanda Zamora was the senior engagement editor at ProPublica.

Amanda Zamora was a senior engagement editor at ProPublica. Previously, she spent more than eight years as a digital producer and editor at The Washington Post, leading the site's election coverage as national digital editor in 2012. She led digital coverage on the metro, foreign and investigative desks before serving as the Post's first social media and engagement editor from 2010 â 2011. Zamora began her journalism career at the Austin American-Statesman as an editorial aide and reporter. In 2009, she helped launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, a nonprofit news site based in Washington, D.C. She is also a previous Knight Digital Media Fellow with the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism.

Transcript: Are Drug Laws Punishing Innocent Mothers?

by Amanda Zamora,

A Closer Look

A Closer Look: I’m Not (Just) Your Paperboy

Why more newsrooms should embrace crowd-powered journalism.

by Amanda Zamora,

Insult to Injury

ProPublica Partners With Beacon to Promote Workers’ Comp Reporting

by Amanda Zamora,

ProPublica's ‘Get Involved’ Aims to Spur More Crowd-Powered News

With Knight Foundation support, ProPublica plans to open up more of its crowdsourcing and reporting resources to other newsrooms.

by Amanda Zamora,

Killing the Colorado

California's Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here's What You Need to Know

by Amanda Zamora, Abrahm Lustgarten and Lauren Kirchner,

Red Cross Failures, Track & Field Doping, NSA Spying and More in MuckReads Weekly

Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? <a href="http://eepurl.com/OknCn">Sign up</a> to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend.

by Amanda Zamora,

Killing the Colorado

What You Need to Know About the Water Crisis in the West

What led to the West's historic water crisis? What can be done to preserve the Colorado River? ProPublica explores the situation, at a glance.

Abrahm Lustgarten, Amanda Zamora, David Sleight and Lauren Kirchner,

Killing the Colorado

Killing the Colorado: Explore the River

How the Colorado was turned into a giant plumbing system.

by Al Shaw, Abrahm Lustgarten, Amanda Zamora, Jeff Larson and Lauren Kirchner,

How Wall Street Captured Washington and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Amanda Zamora,

Warren Buffett’s Mobile Home Empire and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Amanda Zamora,