Olivia Nuzzi (/ˈnuːtsi/ NOOT-see; born January 6, 1993)[1] is an American political reporter who was the Washington, D.C., correspondent for New York magazine from 2017 to 2024.
Prior to her time at New York, Nuzzi was a writer for The Daily Beast covering the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.
[8] Nuzzi began her writing career as a teenager in 2011, as a monthly political columnist for the triCityNews, an alt weekly based in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
[7] While she was a 20-year-old junior at Fordham University in 2013, Nuzzi volunteered as an intern for Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign.
"[9] The New York Daily News commissioned her to write a follow-up article about the campaign[11] that became a July 30, 2013, front-page story.
[7] At The Daily Beast, Nuzzi covered the presidential campaigns of Rand Paul and Chris Christie, as well as Donald Trump's political rise.
[30] In April 2023, Nuzzi began hosting the companion podcast for HBO's White House Plumbers miniseries.
[31] In 2024, Nuzzi hosted Working Capital, a six-episode interview series on Bloomberg Television, featuring conversations with politicians and businessmen.
While "an internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias," the magazine apologized for "violating our readers' trust.
[39] A spokesperson for Kennedy said he "only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.
[41] In October 2024, Nuzzi filed a protective order against Lizza saying he "explicitly threatened to make public personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation—a threat he has since carried out.
"[42] Nuzzi alleged Lizza hacked her devices "for the purposes of stalking and surveilling me and to collect materials to deploy as blackmail to intimidate me back into a relationship and to inflict public ridicule and humiliation as well as professional damage as punishment when I would not return to the relationship.