Amy Argetsinger is an editor for the Style section of ''

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''. A staff writer with ''The Post'' since 1995, she covered the Maryland suburbs, higher education and later the West Coast as an L.A.-based reporter before serving eight years as the "Reliable Source" co-columnist. She shared the column known as "The Reliable Source" with Roxanne Roberts. The two appeared regularly on Friday evening segments of

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'' before the show was cancelled.

Biography

Argetsinger is a native of

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. She attended the St. Agnes School, graduating in 1986, after which she attended the

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, earning a degree in Political and Social Thought in 1990. Argetsinger was named an Echols Scholar, an honors program for incoming students at the University of Virginia. She edited the school's weekly paper ''The Declaration''. Argetsinger started her journalism career in 1991 in the

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, at the Rock Island ''Argus'' and Moline ''Daily Dispatch''. She joined ''The Washington Post'' in December 1995 as a Metro staff writer in the paper's Annapolis bureau, and later covered higher education. Just prior to her "Reliable Source" appointment in 2005, she covered the West Coast for the Post's National staff as

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bureau chief. In September 2021, she published her first book, ''There She Was'', a history of the Miss America pageant, from Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers.

References

External links

"There She Was” / Simon & Schuster

AmyArgetsinger.com

profile in University of Virginia alumni publication

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