Anna Holmes is an
American
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writer and editor. In 2007, she founded the
Gawker Media
Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American online media company and blog network. It was founded by Nick Denton in October 2003 as Blogwire, and was based in New York City. Incorporated in the Cayman Isla ...
women-focused site
.
Early life and education
Holmes was born in
California
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and studied journalism at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, th ...
.
Career
Holmes was a staff writer for ''
Glamour''.
In 2007, she founded
. Writing for
''Mother Jones'',
Tasneem Raja says Holmes developed "a site for women interested in both
fashion
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and how the
models
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Models c ...
were treated. She built it into a traffic behemoth, with 32 million monthly pageviews and beloved features like
Photoshop
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of Horrors and Crap Email From a Dude."
Rebecca Carroll
Rebecca Anne Carroll (born 1969)"Rebecca Carroll." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Gale, 2005. Retrieved via ''Biography In Context'' database, 16 December 2018. is an American writer, editor and radio producer. She is producer of special project ...
described Holmes's Jezebel launch as drawing "immediate attention with its off-color humor (similar in tone to Gawker, but more so a refreshingly new tone altogether), feminine bluster and fearless, pointed criticism of mainstream women’s magazines, an industry in which Holmes worked for many years, for perpetuating unattainable ideals of beauty and an endless (heterosexual) preoccupation with men." Holmes served as editor-in-chief until she left the site in 2010.
She is a columnist for the ''
New York Times Sunday Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...
''
and has previously served as editorial director at
Fusion
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Science and technology Physics
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. She joined Fusion as editor of digital voices and storytelling in 2014, part of a "Web talent grab for a fledgling TV channel:
rst
Felix Salmon
Felix Salmon (born 1972) is a financial journalist, formerly of ''Portfolio Magazine'' and ''Euromoney'' and a former finance blogger for Reuters, where he analyzed economic and occasionally social issues in addition to financial commentary. In Apr ...
, now a much-admired writer and editor."
Her work has appeared in ''
The New Yorker
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'' and ''
Time
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''. In April 2016, Holmes joined
First Look Media
First Look Media is an American nonprofit media organization founded by Pierre Omidyar in October 2013 as a venue for "original, independent journalism".
Overview
The project was started as a collaboration with Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, ...
as senior vice-president of editorial to develop a new media property focused on visual storytelling.
Works
* ''Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair'', Random House Publishing Group, 2003,
* ''The Book of Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things'', Grand Central Publishing, 2013,
References
External links
*http://annaholmes.com/
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American editors
American women writers
New York University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American bloggers
Writers from California
People from Queens, New York
American women bloggers
21st-century American women