Welcome
Miranda C. Spencer
I offer a nose for news, an ear for language, and an eye for detail gleaned from 40 years of eclectic media experience. My business provides writing and editing services to publishers and individuals alike. Together, we produce projects with purpose, power, and personality.
After decades of city living, I'm now based in rural New Hampshire, about two hours from Boston. Have ticket, will travel.
You can check out samples of my latest projects below, then click on "Find Out More" to learn about my background. *My journalism portfolio page is currently under re-construction. In the meantime, please contact me for additional samples.
Book Editing
Recent Work
Climate Obstruction Across Europe
Edited by Robert J. Brulle, J. Timmons Roberts, and Miranda C. Spencer (Oxford University Press, June 2024)
"Understanding climate obstruction is foundational to advancing effective action on the global climate crisis. Starting in the late 1980s, a broad range of actors--including corporations and trade associations acting in coordination with conservative think tanks, foundations, and public relations firms--mounted a long-term effort to oppose action to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. This is the first book to document the development and nature of these activities across Europe...." —from the publisher's website
My role: Administering the project from conception through page proofs (scheduling, trafficking, liaison with the publisher). Performing developmental, line, and copy editing on all chapters, coaching authors (many of whom had English as a second language) through multiple drafts of their work.
REPORTING & WRITING
Recent Work
The Resistance Will Not Be Televised
@2500-word article for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
April 4, 2025
Excerpt:
“'Resistance is alive and well in the United States.'
So declared the headline of a March 19 article on the nonprofit news site Waging Nonviolence. Authors Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam, political scientists at Harvard’s Crowd Counting Consortium, outlined how—despite a common belief that grassroots public resistance against the depredations of the Trump Administration is lacking or lukewarm—protests are actually rising dramatically….
But if you relied on articles and broadcasts from the legacy national news media during early 2025, you wouldn’t know the extent of grassroots action prompted by this discontent. A FAIR examination of five major outlets found that coverage of anti-Trump/pro-democracy protests roughly overlapping CCC’s study timeframe (January 22 to February 26) was minimal, and downplayed the significance of this opposition, especially around the inauguration."