PERSON: Laura Bassett


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The Cut, GQ, Jezebel
Position

Journalist and Columnist
Biography

Laura Bassett is an award-winning freelance journalist writing about politics, gender and culture. She was previously a senior politics reporter at HuffPost, where she covered women’s rights and health for nine years. In 2015, she won a grant from the Pulitzer Center to cover unsafe abortion in Kenya, for which she won the Population Institute’s Global Media Award. She has also twice won Planned Parenthood’s Media Excellence Award for feature writing and commentary, and she consulted on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated docuseries “The Keepers.”

Laura grew up in Opelousas, Louisiana. She frequently appears as a guest on CNN and MSNBC and is currently based in Brooklyn.

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