Nora Neus is an Emmy-nominated producer, writer, and freelance journalist. Her multidisciplinary work is focused on some of the world’s most challenging issues and aims to amplify voices and motivate change.
Since she was a kid, she’s understood journalism as critical for creating a more just world.
She wrote her first hard-hitting piece on the family computer: “Local boy throws corn at sister.” (Yes, she was the sister.) Her work now spans television news, documentary filmmaking, graphic novels, non-fiction, and podcasts. All of her people-centered storytelling aims to amplify marginalized voices and motivate change.
Nora’s passion for ethical journalism as a critical component of democracy has taken her from local news to CNN. Now she’s continuing my work as a freelance journalist, producer, and author to reach adult and young people through national publications, books, and speaking engagements.
She explores challenging issues through a trauma-informed lens because, ultimately, this work is about hope. Hope for a more just world.
Her works include MUHAMMED NAJEM, WAR REPORTER: HOW ONE BOY PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON SYRIA (LBYR 2022, written with Muhammed Najem and illus. by Julie Robine), 24 HOURS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE (Beacon 2024) and its follow up 24 HOURS AT THE CAPITOL (Beacon 2026), and the forthcoming YA graphic novel called RENEGADE GIRLS: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble Rousing (LBYR 2026 illustrated by Julie Robine).
