About Leah
Leah Nylen is a journalist in Washington D.C. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Leah covers antitrust and investigations for Bloomberg News.
She previously served as Chief Global Antitrust Correspondent for MLex, a wire service covering antitrust and regulatory risk owned by Lexis Nexis. In that position, she oversaw teams of reporters focused on antitrust and competition policy around the world and wrote about US antitrust policy, cartels, intellectual property, conduct and private damage actions.
Leah was selected as an Abe Journalist Fellow in 2014 by the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership for a reporting project on Japanese cartels and cartel deterrence policies, which enabled her to publish a series of articles on the intersections between US and Japan on antitrust issues such as extraterritoriality and due process..
She has previously worked for Politico, Bloomberg Government, Main Justice and Congressional Quarterly. She also worked as a freelance research assistant, assisting with Michelle: A Biography by Liza Mundy, a biography of First Lady Michelle Obama, published by Simon and Schuster, and The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, also by Liza Mundy.