Before joining the health and science team, she also spent seven years in the Journal's Tel Aviv bureau covering Israel and the Middle East. In 2005, Amy won a Pulitzer Prize in the Beat Reporting category for a series of stories about cancer survivors and the social, economic, and health challenges they faced living with the disease. Her ten-part series about an innovative collaboration between parents of children with a rare genetic disease and scientists, called "Trials: A Desperate Fight to Save Kids & Change Science," won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Kavli Science Journalism Award for excellence in online reporting. Amy is the author of two books that grew out of her reporting for the Journal in the Middle East, The View from Nebo: How Archaeology is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East and Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. |