About

Michael Amon is a general assignment reporter for Newsday. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Backpacker Magazine and other publications. In 2005, Amon’s profiles of the Army Reserve soldiers accused of mistreating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was included in The Washington Post package named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting. In 2006, he founded Disgrace, a non-fiction humor magazine.