Maria Amante, municipal bond reporter at Debtwire, has left the company as her job was eliminated due to the pandemic.
Amante has been with Debtwire for 7 years, covering the municipal bond market, focused on the states of California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. She also made contributions to podcasts, webinars, and spearheaded in-depth investigative reporting projects for the Debtwire Investigations team.
Before joining Debtwire, Amante was a political and watchdog reporter at Gannett Newspapers. Sometimes she also worked on general assignment stories at the company.
Amante has also interned at MLive Media Group and was a night-time general assignment reporter at Chicago Sun-Times. She has also served as a senior reporter at Central Michigan Life and was an intern at Gongwer News Service.
Amante is a B.S. in journalism and political science from Central Michigan University.
