MLex has hired Emma Whitford as a senior reporter covering artificial intelligence regulation.
She has been a deputy editor at City Limits, leading the organization’s housing and homelessness coverage. She previously was its senior housing reporter.
Before joining City Limits, Whitford was a senior reporter for Law360, where she covered housing and real estate, including reporting on New York housing courts and the state’s handling of its pandemic rent relief program.
Whitford was previously a reporter at Gothamist and has freelanced extensively, with bylines in the New York Daily News, The Intercept, Curbed, Time, Documented NY and the Queens Daily Eagle.
She is a graduate of Brown University.
