Devon Haynie

Assistant Managing Editor, Cities

Devon Haynie is the assistant managing editor for Cities at U.S. News & World Report. She joined the company in 2013 as a higher education reporter, tracking innovations in the online higher education space and documenting the challenges faced by international students. She joined the Best Countries team as an editor in 2015, writing and editing international news features, before taking on the Cities initiative in 2018. Before joining U.S. News, Haynie worked as an enterprise reporter for The Journal Gazette in Indiana, and has written for the Associated Press, The Washingtonian, CityLab, Indianapolis Monthly and other news organizations. She was a 2008 Associated Press Overseas Press Club Fellow in South Africa and Zimbabwe, a 2016 International Reporting Project Fellow covering health and the environment in South Africa and Lesotho, and a 2017 International Reporting Fellow covering post-war tensions in Sri Lanka. She graduated from Colgate University with a degree in peace studies and earned her masters in journalism at Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter, connect with her on LinkedIn, or email her at dhaynie@usnews.com.

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