Jen Chaney Email & Phone Number

Rockville, MD, US

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Review television shows, from network comedies to the latest Netflix drama, for Vulture, the pop culture vertical at New York magazine. Write essays and trend pieces, and interview people working on-camera and behind it in the TV world. Regularly appear on radio to discuss television and film. During annual Vulture Fest, moderate panels with stars like.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Writing about movies, television, books and popular culture for numerous outlets, including New York Magazine's Vulture, Esquire, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Dissolve and others. Also review movies frequently on WTOP and WETA's "Around Town."

Currently at work on Clueless: The Complete Oral History for Simon and Schuster imprint Touchstone.

Review films as part of critics panel on "Around Town," a local PBS TV show about the arts.

• Anchored Celebritology, an award-winning blog that covered celebrity, movie, TV and pop culture news and was read, on average, by 1 million unique visitors per month.
• Wrote multiple posts per day, edited posts by other contributors and maintained the blog’s social media presence on Twitter and Facebook.
• Filed weekly Celebritology column on pop culture trends for Sunday Style section.
• Wrote profiles, reviews and feature stories on film and television.
• Covered major events such as the Academy Awards, San Diego Comic-Con and the Toronto Film Festival using a multi-platform approach that involved blogging, tweeting, writing print features and shooting video.
• Interviewed prominent filmmakers and actors, including Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Seth Rogen, Melissa McCarthy, J.J. Abrams, Ang Lee and many others.

• Oversaw movie and entertainment news sections of the Web site, coordinating breaking story coverage, and creating online packages.
• Directed Web coverage of the Oscars and other major entertainment award shows.
• Co-directed coverage of the TV show “Lost,” which developed a highly dedicated community of readers on the site. In addition to co-blogging about the show, launched related projects, including “Lost” Book Club and the.
• Wrote weekly online-only DVD column that also ran weekly in the Post’s print edition and other newspapers around the country via the Washington Post News Service.
• Directed internship program for Arts & Living department and managed multiple interns.
• Served as voice of washingtonpost.com’s daily news podcast in 2006.

• Acted as freelance contributor for Strollerderby, Babble’s flagship parenting blog.
• Posted multiple times per week on pop culture, health, offbeat news and more.
• Launched popular regular feature in the blog called Rich or Rehab.

• Wrote stories as freelancer for The Washington Post while working at the Post Web site.
• Pieces included actor profiles, essays on pop culture, travel stories and film reviews. Articles appeared in numerous sections of the paper, including Style, Weekend, Book World, Outlook, Sunday Source, TV Week and The.
• Wrote and recorded essay on “Lost” literature for NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
• Wrote book reviews for USA Today’s Life section.
• Contributed feature story on the death of irony to The Utne Reader.
• Wrote essays on pop culture for poppolitics.com.

• Wrote bi-weekly humor column called "Jeneralizations" for The Gazettes, community newspapers owned by The Washington Post Co. that circulate to more than 250,000 people in Montgomery County.
• Column focused on culture and lifestyle topics, particularly subjects related to Generation X and motherhood.

Initially was reporter, covering all types of local issues, including government, education, crime, courts and feature stories. As entertainment editor, I oversaw the arts and entertainment section of the Montgomery County newspapers that are part of this chain.

• Covered events and wrote feature stories for People’s Washington bureau as a free-lance correspondent.
• Conducted research and filed stories on topics of national interest, including the 2000 presidential inauguration and a profile of U2’s Bono.