About

Eileen Markey is an independent journalist specializing in urban policy, social movements, memory, and the role of religion in the public square. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, the New York Daily News, The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, City Limits, WNYC New York Public Radio, Commonweal, and elsewhere. She’s been deeply rooted in The Bronx since the 1990s and has also reported from Cambodia, the US-Mexico border, Central America and Ireland.

Markey thinks the best reporting is a mix of detective work and seeking out voices often ignored. She’s as skilled at sifting through arcane records as she is at sitting long enough and listening closely enough to tell a textured story.

She believes in journalism as a public service and a free press as crucial for democracy.

Markey is the editor of the first anthology of the work of legendary Village Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett, Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism That First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and the American Epidemic of Corruption, Bold Type/Hachette 2020.

Her book A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura was published by Nation Books in 2016 to wide acclaim and was selected as a New York Times editor’s pick.

Now an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Markey studied at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and in Fordham University’s Urban Studies Program. But her best education was interning under Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice in the 1990s. She lives in the Bronx with her husband and two sons.