Maureen Milford

Maureen Milford brings a wealth of experience as a long-time business journalist covering everything from start-ups to multi-generational family businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Based in Delaware, she has had a front-row seat to important business matters litigated in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Maureen has also covered other significant business law matters, such as proxy contests and changes in corporate law. Her byline has appeared in major national newspapers and magazines over the years. Before becoming a full-time freelance writer, Maureen enjoyed a long and fulfilling career at The News Journal Co. in Wilmington, Delaware, which was dubbed “The world’s most powerful local paper” by Politico in 2021. At the News Journal, Maureen served for a period as the newspaper’s correspondent to USA Today.Maureen’s work has won many awards, including the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award presented by The Anderson School of Management at UCLA for deadline writing and the Chesapeake Associated Press Mark Twain Award for an outstanding business story. She’s a proud graduate of the University of Delaware. In her spare time, Maureen takes pleasure in drawing and writing her own children’s books for family, as well as painting landscapes of the Brandywine Valley. While she has enjoyed traveling to remote places to visit archaeological site, including Norse settlements in Greenland and Newfoundland, Canada, Maureen also retains her long-time love of Delaware’s rich history.