Cindy Skrzycki
Senior Lecturer
412-624-3173
skrzycki@pitt.edu
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Cindy Skrzycki is a senior lecturer in the English Department and a member of the Pitt Publications Board. She came to Pitt as a journalist-in-residence in 2003 and teaches in the English Department, and Honors College. She also is a correspondent for Globalpost.com, a world-wide news service based in Boston.
She holds an MA in public affairs and journalism from American University, Washington, DC.
Born in Buffalo, NY, she is an honors graduate of Canisius College where she was editor of the student newspaper, The Griffin, and a member of the DiGamma Honor Society. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Canisius College and the Three Rivers Youth Orchestra.
Research and Publications: She is the author of The Regulators: The Anonymous Power Brokers Who Shape Your Life.
She was a regulatory columnist for New York-based Bloomberg News after 18 years at The Washington Post, where she specialized in management and technology issues, with special expertise in the business and regulation of the telecommunications industry. In 1993, she began writing a weekly column, "The Regulators,” which examined the gritty work of Washington regulation. She joined Global Post in 2009.
Before joining The Post, she was an associate business editor at U.S. News & World Report, specializing in transportation issues, and a Washington correspondent for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered the gamut of business issues. She also worked in the Washington Bureau of the Fairchild News Service, covering the steel industry, and was a business writer for The Buffalo News.