Eileen Markey is a reporter who specializes in urban policy, social movements, and the role of religion in the public square. She teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and publishes widely. She is at work on a book about the rebuilding of the Bronx, where she's been based since the 1990s.
A collection of groundbreaking investigations by legendary Village Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett. With piercing moral clarity and exacting rigor, Wayne Barrett tracked political corruption fact by fact, document by document for 40 years. Without Compromise is the first anthology of Barrett's investigative work, accompanied by essays from colleagues and those he trained. In an age of lies, fog, and propaganda, Barrett reminds us that facts, when clearly accumulated, are our best defense of democracy."
A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura relies on archives, declassified government records, and deep, skilled interviewing in four countries to piece together a Cold War story of love and commitment.
On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women—three of them Catholic nuns—were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador.
In A Radical Faith, journalist Eileen Markey breathes life back into one of these women, Sister Maura Clarke. Who was this woman in the dirt? What led her to this vicious death so far from home?
Eileen Markey believes the best reporting is a mix of detective work and listening to voices often ignored. It is defined by critical thinking, honesty, and independence. Trained under legendary investigative journalist Wayne Barrett, Markey knows the power of public records to reveal the truth and relishes the hunt for facts. She’s as skilled at sifting through arcane records as she is at sitting long enough and listening closely enough to tell a textured story.
Markey's work is characterized by deep research, a sense of history and a commitment to carefully crafted prose.
Markey worked as a producer on WNYC New York Public Radio's Brian Lehrer Show, contributed to WNYC’s campaign-coverage site It's a Free Country, and filed audio-rich features for the newsroom.
Markey teaches journalism at Lehman College CUNY, grounding students in local reporting. She's at work on a book about the Bronx for Duke University Press.
