Maureen Tkacik

Notable work and positions

The American Prospect — Investigations Editor
American Economic Liberties Project — Senior Fellow
Jezebel — Co-founder (2007)

Biography

Maureen “Moe” Tkacik is investigations editor at The American Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project. She previously worked as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal, where she reported on Abercrombie & Fitch in coverage later featured in the Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, as well as at Time, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Magazine, Talking Points Memo, and Gawker. In 2007, she co-founded the website Jezebel with Anna Holmes. Her writing on business and economics has also appeared in The New Republic, The Baffler, Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters, The Nation, and The New York Times, and she contributed chapters to the essay collections Bad News: How the Business Press Missed the Story of the Century (2011) and False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2016). She attended the University of Pennsylvania.