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Amanda Zamora spent six years at The Washington Post as online editor and producer, developing enterprise projects with the investigative unit after stints on the foreign and metro desks. She was previously an online content producer and reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. Zamora was a fellow with the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in Latino media studies from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2008, Zamora spent six months examining Virginia’s mental health system as a Knight Digital Media Fellow with the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State University.
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Stories by Amanda Zamora

HARD TIMES PROFITEERS: Help Us Investigate 'Signs of Deception'

Drive through most any city in America and the offers will leap out at you: "Repair Your Credit!" "Sell Your House Quick!" They are signs of this recession, posted by Hard Times Profiteers seeking to capitalize on the financial misfortune of others, and we need your help documenting them.

By Ben Protess, Amanda Zamora and Lagan Sebert
18 February 2010

VIDEO: The Fate of a Subprime Loan: Can This Man Hold On to His Mortgage?

Eliseo Guardado came legally to the United States in search of his own American Dream.  But in 2006, that dream became a nightmare when Long Beach Mortgage, a subsidiary of Washington Mutual, put him in a loan he couldn't afford. Guardado's story illustrates how fraud in the loan process was at the center of the largest bank failure in American history.

By Amanda Zamora and Lagan Sebert
22 December 2009

VIDEO: Consumer Agency Gains, But Foes Remain

The Obama administration’s plan for a new regulatory agency to protect consumers has cleared a major legislative hurdle – but it still faces strong opposition from Republicans, business interests...

By Amanda Zamora and Lagan Sebert
22 October 2009