–● Write features for The New York Times, including a story on the daily lives of television writers.–● Write profiles and breaking news for The Guardian, including a reported piece from Cleveland about the collision of pop culture and politics at the 2016 Republican National Convention.–● For Vice, interviewed Senator Cory Booker about legal marijuana.–● Wrote an essay for Motherboard about how technology transformed my relationship with my dad.–● Interviewed Marthe Cohn, a French Jewish woman who spied on the Nazis, for The Times of Israel.–● Launched RECESS, a monthly pop culture and activism newsletter –● Reported on the emergence of virtual reality music experiences for Billboard.–● Wrote about the long, trying saga of bringing a Tupac Shakur biopic to the big screen for Vulture.–● Interviewed Anjelica Huston, Al Pacino, Peter Jackson, and more for The Daily Beast.–● Wrote breaking news stories on global affairs and culture for The Jewish Daily Forward.–● Reported additional stories for Grantland, TheAtlantic.com, VanityFair.com, and RollingStone.com.–● Appeared on NPR with Scott Simon to discuss my Vulture feature on post-credit film sequences.

–●– Led music, film, and TV editorial initiatives for Instagram, producing and editing stories for ourflagship account, @instagram (193 million followers), blog (one of the top Tumblrs), and products(Stories, Boomerang, Hyperlapse, Layout).– –● Founded @music, Instagram’s official online music magazine, which profiled emerging andestablished bands and photographers through a mix of written features, photos, and videos.● Managed monthly budget and editorial calendar, and recruited a team of six writers for @music.● Wrote and edited more than 400 feature stories for @instagram and @music, conducting interviewswith Madonna, U2, Questlove, Shonda Rhimes, Miley Cyrus, YG, Lupita Nyong’o, Joey Bada$$, Yo Gotti, and more.● Introduced reported features to Instagram and Instagram Stories, resulting in hundreds of press stories from our interviews with Drake, Selena Gomez, Run the Jewels, Leon Bridges, and Devin Allen.● Captured and produced video content for @instagram and @music at festivals and other events.–● Collaborated with colleagues across Instagram and Facebook to execute major editorial initiatives,including our coverage for the 2016 Grammys and 2016 Oscars.