Ellen Tumposky is an editor on the New York Daily News city desk and a freelance writer and reporter. For more than a decade, she was a London-based correspondent covering breaking news and arts and entertainment for U.S. publications including USA Today, The News, and People magazine. Tumposky earlier worked as a City Hall reporter and social-services beat reporter for The News, a copy editor for the Rockland Journal-News, and a manuscript editor for book publishers including W.W. Norton and Macmillan. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Cornell University, majoring in English.