culture reporter prev. @adweek, @mashable 💌 [email protected]
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me on sephora tweens: encouraging girls to invest in skincare at such a young age blurs the line between girlhood and womanhood, eating away at the formative final years of childhood mashable.com/article/sephora…
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I wrote about how @danielhowell and @AmazingPhil 's recent YouTube video is a subtly-disguised blueprint for approaching parasocial relationships in the modern digital age. We need creators like them now more than ever x
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experienced my first media layoff 🙃
i’m open to any and all culture, technology, entertainment, lifestyle, etc. writing opportunities and assignments at [email protected] 💌
most recently, i covered the business of creators and how brands are trying to reaching gen z for adweek. previously, i wrote about all things internet culture for mashable. tumblr.com/elenamcavender
professional news 👩🏻💻 today is my first day at adweek covering influencer marketing and the creator economy 💌 be in touch [email protected]
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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ALT Handwritten note. Prompt at the top asks: What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you? Answer below: They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries That was in my Duffel Bag. They also took my leather motorcycle vest worth 300$+ and my whole tent setup.
my final story for mashable is of course about swifties 🥲 mashable.com/article/taylor-…
💌professional news💌 after 3.5 years today is my last day at mashable. this was my first job out of college and i started as a fellow! i loved covering digital culture, fandom, and gen z and i'm excited to build on that reporting and branch out beyond the internet.
breaking the news that kendall roy is Babygirl mashable.com/article/success…
and my exploration of the underground world of fancam makers mashable.com/article/challen…
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(2 of 2) Corporate greed like this — where profits are put ahead of workers’ well being — is exactly why we fought for our strong contract that sets limits on cost increases over the next three years. We hope our contract can be a baseline for all Ziff Davis workers.
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(Thread 1 of 2) Just as @ziffdavis celebrates a nearly 6% increase in digital media business, management plans to hit our members with a 7% increase in health care costs and changes which spouses can and can’t receive healthcare…
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the most fucked up part about the chicago jeremy allen white lookalike contest is that there was no homage to lip gallagher. just the aprons and white t-shirts. shameless used to mean something
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This sounds frivolous in the grand scheme of things but we need to support archivists, protect public libraries, protect journalists, writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers. We need to continue to keep culture alive and educate our youth.
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We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.
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@rebecca_ruiz on why logging off may be worth it post-election. "Activism & organizing is another way of influencing the election, but remember how much of that work involves direct action, like knocking on doors, not impulsively checking social media."
mashable.com/article/electio…
