Lizzy Tomei

Editor

Lizzy Tomei is a former editor at PRI.

As GlobalPost's Editor, Lizzy Tomei oversaw editorial operations of the website's virtual newsroom, working with colleagues in Boston and internationally to cultivate distinctive, high-quality reporting from around the planet. A member of the GlobalPost team since 2012, she previously held positions as GlobalPost's Managing Editor and Breaking News Editor.She began her career in journalism in Cambodia, where she worked first as an editor and reporter at The Cambodia Daily and later as a freelance researcher, writer and English tutor. Her reporting at the Daily between 2005 and 2007 focused on politics, human rights and crime.Lizzy has worked as a freelance editor and writer for clients based in Southeast Asia, Central America and the United States. She reported for the nonprofit San Francisco Public Press during its founding days in 2009 and 2010. During those same years she was a board member and secretary of the Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California, one of the national organization's most active chapters.Lizzy received a BA in English with distinction from Kenyon College and has a master's degree in security policy and international media from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. While in graduate school in 2011 and 2012, she was a senior editor of the Journal of International Affairs, a leading foreign affairs periodical, and a head teaching assistant for the school's department of statistics and quantitative analysis. A California native, Lizzy has traveled in Asia, Central and South America, South Africa, and Western Europe. 


Sunset in Lima

Delightfully bad tourism slogans from around the world

Culture

Nigeria’s slogan sounds like Donald Trump wrote it in a tweet: “Good people, great nation.”

Baby giraffe

Care not where giraffes wear neckties. Care that they might go extinct.

Economics
Subway cats London

London Tube riders pay to replace ads with cats, set example for rest of world

Culture

Boy Scouts leaders defend policy banning openly gay members

Lifestyle

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Lifestyle

Profile: Assef Shawkat, Assad brother-in-law and leading strongman, is reportedly dead

GlobalPost profiles his close ties to President Bashar al-Assad.

GAO report finds weak vetting of foreign students at US flight schools

More than 25,000 foreign nationals received pilot training before being vetted against terrorist screening databases, analysis finds.

Countdown to collapse: Syria watchers and Twitter analyst say next 36 hours could make or break Assad regime

Depending on who you talk to, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may only have 36 hours left.

Obama supports Olympics tribute to Israelis killed at 1972 Munich games

Politics

The White House’s endorsement comes on the heels of a bombing in Bulgaria yesterday that killed at least seven people, five of them Israeli.

Iraq confirms that Syrian rebels are controlling their border checkpoints

Meanwhile, inside Syria, opposition activists claim dozens of casualties after rebels attack Damascus police headquarters.