Nina D. Burleigh is an American writer and investigative journalist,[1] She writes books, articles, essays and reviews.

In June 2009, Burleigh and her family moved to the Italian city of Perugia, where Amanda Knox was being tried on a murder charge, to write a book.

In January 2019, the London Daily Telegraph apologized and paid "substantial damages" for publishing an article written by Burleigh.

"She will not sit by as people and media outlets make up lies and false assertions in a race for ratings or to sell tabloid headlines".

It appears that fear of Mrs Trump's lawyer Mr Harder, the "Gawker slayer", caused TMG to capitulate abjectly in the face of his letter without regard to normal journalistic principles, at the cost of Ms Burleigh's personal and professional reputation.

TMG had nothing to apologise for, and both the fact that it did so, and the particularly lurid way it abandoned the Article, have turned Ms Burleigh into an international poster girl for "fake news".