About Molly McCluskey

Molly McCluskey is an international award-winning multimedia journalist, editor, and communicator with more than 20 years of media experience ranging from legacy publications and global institutions to start-up and non-profit organizations. She is the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Diplomatica Global Media, a start-up newsroom dedicated to solutions-focused reporting on diplomatic properties.

 

As an independent investigative journalist and foreign correspondent, she has reported from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and extensively throughout Europe. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, CityLab, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Pacific Standard, Rolling Stone, The Irish Times, New York Magazine, and an array of national and international publications on topics ranging from Europe's financial crisis, to global migration, to America's incarcerated children. Her economics and personal finance columns for The Motley Fool, U.S. News & World Report, and others, have been internationally syndicated. She was one of the first journalists worldwide to cover the rise of social media use by world leaders in a column for The Washington Diplomat.

 

She has served various editing roles at CityLab, Talking Points Memo, Al Jazeera English. Middle East Eye, Diplomatic Courier, and more, and was a news producer at the European Broadcasting Union. Molly is a former International Women’s Media Foundation Democratic Republic of the Congo reporting fellow, winner of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Reporting, the inaugural recipient of the Solutions Journalism Network reporting grant, an International Center for Journalists Reporting the Border fellow and a Salzburg Global Seminar Parks for the Planet fellow. Previously, she sat for four terms on the Board of Governors of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

 

Having begun her career working as a communications consultant with environmental non-profit organizations in the Bay Area, Molly continues to provide specialized communications, media, and editorial consulting services to a variety of non-profit, diplomatic, and global institutions, with an emphasis on the environment and climate change, economic equality, global health, food security, and more.

 

She is also an internationally published and produced playwright.