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features
Creator economy & social media
Even Top Creators Find That Star Power Is Fleeting (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Bucket List Family’s Crowdfunding Success Is Creating a Blueprint for Creators (The Hollywood Reporter)
Digital Creators Rethink Hollywood As Some Push to Work On Their Own Terms (The Hollywood Reporter)
“Am I Going to Lose My House?”: OnlyFans’ Pivot Leaves Adult Content Creators With Fewer Options (The Hollywood Reporter)
Black TikTok Creators Grapple With How Far to Take Strike: “Why Should We Have to Leave?” (The Hollywood Reporter)
Apple vs. Everyone: Why Rivals Are Sharpening Knives (The Hollywood Reporter)
Podcasting
As Alex Cooper Reigns at Spotify, the Podcast Host Gets More Comfortable Being Political (The Hollywood Reporter)
As Dawn Ostroff Exits, Spotify Rethinks Rich Talent Deals (The Hollywood Reporter)
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess Exposes Larger Rift Over Rules, Streaming Revenues (The Hollywood Reporter)
Pivot to … Something? The Blurry Future of Podcasting (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Booming Business of Kids’ Podcasting: “It Has Absolutely Exploded” (The Hollywood Reporter)
Film & TV
With ‘Ninja Turtles’ and ‘Paw Patrol,’ Paramount’s animated franchise strategy pays off (Los Angeles Times)
After the flop of ‘The Marvels,’ questions mount for Disney over MCU’s future (Los Angeles Times)
Art, pop culture & celebrity
The Pursuit of Blondness (The Atlantic)
Immigrant Stereotypes Are Everywhere on TV (The Atlantic)
Jennifer Lawrence’s Personal Assistant Branches Out to Build Staffing Agency (The Hollywood Reporter)
Why Hollywood’s Talk of ‘Inclusion Riders’ Fizzled (The Wrap)
How the Pandemic Transformed the Role of the Restaurant Critic (The Wrap)
How Instagram Celebrity Gossip Accounts Are Changing Tabloid Media (The Wrap)
Education
The Kids Aren’t All Right (Air Mail)
Medievalists, Recoiling From White Supremacy, Try to Diversify the Field (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
They Each Applied to More Than 100 Colleges. That May Be the Problem. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Investigations
Classical Music Has a ‘God Status’ Problem (The Atlantic)
Netflix Employee Trust Erodes Amid Layoffs As Ex-Staffers Say Company Culture Is Changing (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Los Angeles Times in Crisis: Stalled Subscriptions, Drowsy Leadership, Slack Channel Trash Talk (The Wrap)
Inside ‘Sausage Party’: Allegations of Forced Overtime and an ‘Atmosphere of Fear’ (The Wrap)
Barnard Career Development director remains in position despite claims of sexism, toxic work environment (Columbia Daily Spectator)
Interviews / Q&A
Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani (Los Angeles Times)
Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman (Los Angeles Times)
Jared Leto, Lee Eisenberg, and Drew Crevello for Apple TV+’s WeCrashed (The Hollywood Reporter)
Marques Brownlee/MKBHD (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos (The Hollywood Reporter)
Xbox Game Studios’ Matt Booty (The Hollywood Reporter)
YouTube’s head of gaming, Leo Olebe (The Hollywood Reporter)
YouTube’s vice president of the Americas, Tara Walpert Levy (The Hollywood Reporter)
WME partner Marissa Hurwitz (The Hollywood Reporter)
Reviews and Commentary
Chanel Miller, Formerly ‘Emily Doe,’ Speaks Out With a Story of Survival in ‘Know My Name’ (The Wrap)
On Doge Twitter, Everything Is Meaningless (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Unsatisfying Conclusions of ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ (The Wrap)
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VICE – Buyables
I wrote a series for VICE, where I interviewed staffers with expertise on various subjects about the products or experiences they’d like to recommend to readers. Here are a few examples:
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The Atlantic – Books Briefing
As a fellow for The Atlantic, I wrote a weekly, thematic newsletter about the magazine’s best book-related coverage. Some examples: