Aliya Schneider is a Politics & Governing Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she covers Pennsylvania politics and the 2024 election.

Aliya also has experience as an editor and photojournalist.

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E-mail her at aliyareports@gmail.com, aliyareports@proton.me
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Aliya previously worked as a staff reporter for the Bronx Times, a daily website and weekly newspaper that covers NYC's northernmost borough. Her articles were regularly co-published in amNewYork Metro, and her work was referenced by The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, The CITY, City and State, Politico, Bloomberg, Gothamist, City Limits, Hell Gate, Streetsblog, Fox News, BronxNet and NY1.

Aliya was part of the 2022-2023 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship cohort and is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2020 with an Urban Studies major and Political Science concentration. At Barnard, she took as many Columbia Journalism School graduate-level courses as the registrar would let her, and then some. She also took courses at the International Center of Photography.

Aliya has worked at the Register-Star, a daily newspaper in Hudson, New York and the Westmore News, a weekly newspaper in Port Chester, New York. She also worked as a freelance reporter and photojournalist in Vermont, where her articles and photos were published in Vermont Public Radio, the Mountain Times and the Rutland Herald. Her photos have also been published in WNYC's Gothamist and VTDigger.