Amie Ferris-Rotman
Amie Ferris-Rotman
Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist and editor based in London.
Twitter/X: @Amie_FR
Biography
Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American writer and editor based in London with over two decades of experience in journalism, primarily as a reporter. She began her career at Reuters in 2006 and went on to hold various roles at the agency, including extended postings in Moscow and Kabul. During her time there, she reported extensively on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, with a focus on women’s rights.
She later worked in Moscow with Foreign Policy and The Washington Post, where she conducted an award-winning investigation into the treatment of ethnic Kazakh women in Chinese internment camps.
Over the course of five years, Amie has held various leadership positions with Washington, D.C.-based newsrooms The Fuller Project and New Lines Magazine, where she has spearheaded global coverage of reproductive rights and the fallout from the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Her contribution to the magazine, in which she wrote about being pregnant in modern Russia, earned first place from the Society for Features Journalism.
In 2013, Amie was named a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is the founder of Sahar Speaks, a programme dedicated to training and publishing Afghan female journalists. In recognition of her work in Afghanistan, she received a 2016 British Press Award. She also serves as a founding trustee of Rukhshana Media, a charity supporting Afghan women journalists.
Amie holds a bachelor and master’s degree in Russian studies from University College London.
Books
Zahra Joya’s memoir, Betrayed (written with with the help of Amie Ferris-Rotman) will be published by Little Brown in 2026.