Clara Germani Writer • Editor

Clara Germani is an award-winning editor and reporter 

based in Laguna Beach, California.

Her projects for The Christian Science Monitor and The Baltimore Sun have taken her across the Americas from Patagonia to Haiti and Washington, D.C. to Alaska; and as a Moscow-based correspondent, she roamed the former Soviet Republics for stories focusing on such diverse topics as capitalistic reindeer herders above the Arctic circle to profiles of Chechen rebel leaders. 

She was a police-beat reporter for The Orange County Register and covered the federal and county courts for City News Service in Los Angeles; and she has contributed to The St, Louis American.

As managing editor at The New England Center for Investigative Reporting, she was involved in a project that exposed possible juror racism in a murder conviction, leading to the defendant's release in December 2017 and new trial in 2018. 

She was also nominated by three reporters for The Dart Society Mimi Award, the nation's only journalism prize recognizing exceptional work for a newspaper editor. Her work with them on war-related projects in Liberia, Central Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan won the 2009 Mimi honorable mention.