Clara Germani, a contributor, has had a long career at the Monitor as a staff editor and correspondent.
Her most recent major projects include managing and editing The Climate Generation and helping to plan and write for The Reparations Debate: Mending the past, forging the future.
During her career, she served as a Monitor correspondent in the San Francisco, Washington, and South America bureaus. And in her editing work at the Monitor, she was awarded the honorable mention in the 2009 Dart Society Mimi Award, the only national award for editors. She oversaw the award-winning Little Bill Clinton series – a year-long multimedia narrative about a Congolese refugee in Atlanta – which won multiple national reporting awards.
Germani also reported for The Baltimore Sun from Russia as Moscow bureau chief and was the Sun’s assistant national editor.
As managing editor of The New England Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news partner at WGBH radio, she was particularly proud to have directed a project that exposed possible juror racism in a murder conviction, leading to the defendant's release in December 2017 and new trial in 2018; and she edited a major investigation uncovering irregularities in prenatal genetic testing interpretation won two national medical reporting awards.
In her early career, she was a police-beat reporter for The Orange County Register and covered the federal and county courts for City News Service in Los Angeles.
She has also contributed as a freelancer to such publications as Salon, The St. Louis American, and Rotary magazine..
She grew up in a small Sonoran Desert town in California, and has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Highlights of her Monitor stories
Biden says he’s ‘too old to stay as president.’ It shows the pull of ageism.
Rise and fall of a ‘Haitian Mandela’
400th anniversary of slavery in US: How ancestry quests help heal
Gunowners Talk: Self protection is more complex than 'stand and fight'
Stories by Clara Germani
- ‘Elderly’ or ‘older’? Advocates and a dictionary address language on aging.
- Biden says he’s ‘too old to stay as president.’ It shows the pull of ageism.
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Covering the Climate Generation, its inventiveness and drive
- Letter from Tampa: Aging gets a makeover at this gerontology summit
- From the Editors Breathless and grateful: An editor on the job
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