Liena Zagare

Liena Zagare is the editor of the Manhattan Institute’s The Bigger Apple, a newsletter focused on policy and politics in New York City. She’s the founder and publisher of Bklyner, the award-winning local news outlet in Brooklyn, New York. She also founded and in 2011 sold a network of local news sites to AOL’s Patch, where she served as director of special projects. She was previously an investment analyst for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. Her advocacy for sustainable local news has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Zagare has a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She was born in Latvia and lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn, with her family.