Amy Mitchell

Amy S. Mitchell is deputy director for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.  She is involved in all aspects of the PEJ, with a primary focus on designing and managing in-depth research reports including the Annual Report on the State of the News Media.  She speaks regularly with outside groups on the changing face of journalism and consumer news habits.

You can read more about Mitchell and her research at "The State of News Media" An Annual Report of American Journalism.

Mitchell, who has been with the Project since its inception in 1997, also speaks on the various components of research conducted at the Project.  Prior to PEJ, Mitchell was a congressional research associate at the American Enterprise Institute where she researched public policy and the relationship of the press, the public and government.  She has authored and co-authored several works including, "Thinking Clearly: Case Studies in Journalistic Decision Making."  She has also won awards for PEJ’s Annual Report on the State of the News Media including two SPJ awards and the Bart Richards award.  Originally from the midwest, she now lives in Silver Spring, Md., with her husband and three children.