Miranda S. Spivack is a veteran reporter and editor who specializes in stories about government accountability and secrecy. She spent twenty years as an award-winning editor and reporter for the Washington Post. A former Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, USAToday and the McClatchy newspapers. She is the author of Backroom Deals in Our Backyards (The New Press),