Libby Copeland
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Libby Copeland (born 1976) is a staff writer for the Washington Post. She started her career with the Post in 1998 as an intern in the Style department,[1] and now covers Washington politics.[2] Insiders have observered her to be a rising star.[3][4] In 2005, she was the Feature Specialty Reporting winner for the large circlulation papers category in the annual competition held by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.[5]
[edit] Journalistic Work
Copeland created controversy in late 2006 when she published an article in the Post in which she expressed marvel that Monica Lewinsky had earned a Master's degree at the London School of Economics[6]. It was widely condemned as sexist, pointless and mean-spirited[7][8][9].
Her coverage of the 2006 Congressional mid-term elections has been both lauded[10][11] and enthusastically criticisized[12][13] by the blogging community.
She wrote articles for the Post about Washington, DC area graffiti artist Borf (aka John Tsombikos) and has been the subject of some graffiti saying "Libby Copeland Writes Lies," possibly in connection with the Borf issue.[14]
[edit] Personal Background
Copeland is an alumna of Hastings High School of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. She went on to major in English at the University of Pennsylvania where, in her junior year, she won the Thouron Award.[15]
