Laura Itzkowitz

Laura is a Rome-based freelance journalist with a decade of experience covering travel, arts and culture, lifestyle, design, food, and wine. She has visited around 50 countries on six continents but especially loves exploring under-the-radar places in Italy. She prefers to spend her free time whiling away hot summer days at Italian beach clubs and pursuing her quest to find the best pizza in Rome. In addition to contributing to travel and lifestyle publications and updating Fodor’s Rome guidebook, she writes a weekly Substack newsletter called the New Roman Times about people, places, and things that matter to Romans and anyone who loves Rome.Published in: Travel + Leisure, AFAR, Condé Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, Hemispheres, and Architectural Digest, among many others.