Jarrett Bellini (born October 3, 1978) is an American writer and journalist.

Career

In January 2004, Bellini joined

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in Atlanta, and in June 2006 began writing and hosting a video podcast called ''The Gryst'' on

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. On July 26, 2007, after 57 episodes, ''The Gryst'' officially became ''News of the Absurd''. In April 2009, Bellini began hosting a regular ''Daily Distraction'' segment for CNN.com LIVE, sharing interesting and offbeat web videos. Both ''News of the Absurd'' and ''Daily Distraction'' aired on CNN.com until November 2009. Starting in June 2012, Bellini began writing a weekly column for CNN Digital called "Apparently This Matters" where he examines "trending topics in social media and random items of interest on the interwebs." In December 2014, Bellini joined

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. In November 2015, he launched an "Apparently This Matters" interview series on

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Personal

Bellini was born and raised in

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, and is the younger brother of ''

Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' correspondent

Jason Bellini Jason Bellini (born July 12, 1975) is an American journalist. Since 2012, he has been a correspondent for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Bellini was a CNN correspondent from 1998 to 2005, where he produced stories often using only a hand-held digi ...

. He graduated in 2001 from

American University The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...

. Bellini is a bass guitarist, and has played in the past with the former local Atlanta band Animal & the Evolvers. He is of Italian and Jewish descent.

References

External links

www.JarrettBellini.com
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