Carmel DeAmicis

Carmel DeAmicis is a multimedia reporter and Digital Media Fellow at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She helps teach digital technology to current grad students and faculty, including video shooting and editing, audio recording, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and other media skills. Aside from journalistic pursuits, she's a Gleek, Harry Potter nerd, foodie and Cal alum who left her heart in San Francisco.

After graduating from UC Berkeley a year early in 2009, Carmel left the US for the first time in her life after college and moved to the United Arab Emirates. She spent a year and a half in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, freelancing for Time Out Magazine and then reporting for City 7 TV, a local satellite station.

She missed life in the States – particularly mac 'n' cheese, Netflix streaming, and her little sister – so when the time was right Carmel moved home to intern full time at The Nation magazine in New York City from January 2011 – June 2011.

At Columbia Carmel specialized in broadcast journalism, with classes in business and economics reporting, local public policy coverage, investigative skills, social media, features writing, and multimedia storytelling. Her master's project focused on the impact of the internet on the modern day "mail-order bride" industry. She earned her master's degree in May 2012.

Carmel's work has been published in The Nation, CounterPunch, Time Out Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, and Bahrain, Abu Dhabi Weekly, and The Daily Californian.Reporting antics in Middle East: http://youtube.com/carmeldiamici **Note: pseudonym used in the Middle East