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About Stephanie

Stephanie is a senior writer at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Business Week on the projects and investigations team. She writes about business, politics and science delving into everything from Russian oligarchs and sanctions to Donald Trump’s finances, art market fraud and Covid-19 vaccines . A dual US-UK citizen, Stephanie has reported from Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan and throughout the European Union.

She has appeared as a commentator on politics and business on the BBC, ITV, PBS Newshour, National Public Radio, Times Radio and is a regular guest on BBC Dateline, a weekly half hour news show featuring foreign correspondents based in London. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Television and Radio.  

She shared a Gerald Loeb award for explanatory journalism for a series on antibiotic resistance.

In 2023, she shared a Whitman Bassow citation from the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for a series on plastics pollution. In 2020, she was shortlisted for Science Journalist of the Year by the U.K. Society of Editors. She’s won awards from the U.K. Foreign Press Association and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Her work appeared in Columbia University Press’ Best Business Writing anthology in 2015. 

Before joining Bloomberg, she worked as a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and The Moscow Times in Moscow. She holds an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and an MSc from the London School of Economics in comparative politics focusing on Eastern Europe and Russia. She lives in London.