Amanda Knox Working As Freelance Reporter

Amanda Knox, the American convicted for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, has been hired as a freelance reporter by a small newspaper in Seattle.

The website of the West Seattle Herald features a number of articles by-lined Amanda Knox - among them a human interest story and some theatre reviews.

For example, she reviewed a high-school production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the play by Tom Stoppard.

Web Editor Patrick Robinson told The Daily Beast that the paper wanted to give Knox "the opportunity to be an actual human being versus a celebrity".

Mr Robinson described Knox as "a very bright, very capable, highly qualified writer".

Initially she wrote under a pseudonym, but then started using her real name.

Knox was herself the object of intense media scrutiny after she was arrested following the 2007 murder of Ms Kercher in Perugia, Italy.

The two, both exchange students, shared the apartment where Ms Kercher was found dead, semi-naked and in a pool of blood.

Knox and her boyfriend at the time of the killing, Raffaele Sollecito, of Italy, were convicted in 2009, then acquitted two years later. It was then that Knox left Italy to go back to the US.

She published a memoir called Waiting To Be Heard.

But another Italian court last January reinstated the guilty verdicts.

Knox, who was tried in absentia, was sentenced to 28 years in jail. She has maintained her innocence and said she has no intention to return to Italy to fight her conviction.