Hi. I’m Claire Brown, a journalist and writer based in New York. My work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Intercept, and elsewhere.  I recently completed the Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia University. Before that, I was a senior staff writer for The Counter. 

Selected Work

The New York Times Magazine

A Game of Chicken

The New York Times Magazine

Attack of the Superweeds

The Counter

How corporations buy — and sell — food made with prison labor

The Intercept

How Amazon’s on-site emergency care endangers the workers it’s supposed to protect

The New York Times

They tried to quit their jobs. Their ex-employers sued them for training costs

The New York Times

A job with a fair salary? What pay transparency laws are revealing