Paige Marie Oamek is a writer, editor, and fact-checker in Brooklyn (by way of Iowa).

Paige sometimes reports breaking news at Gothamist/WNYC. Currently, she's investigating NY state prisons w/ Hell Gate and NY Focus. Before that, she was a research editor at WIRED magazine and a breaking news writer for The New Republic. Their writing has appeared in The Nation, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere.

Paige was recently a master's student at the CUNY Newmark School of Journalism with a degree in data and business & economic reporting.

Paige writes about politics, privatization, money, and city life with an eye toward technology’s role and is available for freelance projects of all kinds.

She also writes the bi-weekly newsletter The First Word and produces a weekly political comedy podcast.

WRITING AND RESEARCH