Talking about memes on the Today Show in June.
REPORTING (these links are sort of out of date!!!! Sorry I’m really bad at maintaining this website).
Check my author page at The New York Times, The Atlantic or The Daily Beast for more recent work.
YouTuber Jake Paul Builds a Multimillion-Dollar Empire—With the Help of Thousands of Tween Fans (The Daily Beast)
‘Niche Memes’ Are the Secret Clip Art Diaries Teens Are Posting on Instagram (The Daily Beast)
CEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host (The Daily Beast)
How A 6-year-old Became The Youngest Ever Social Media Influencer (The Daily Beast)
Inside the secret meeting that changed the fate of Vine forever (Mic)
Inside the elite meme wars of America's most exclusive colleges (Mic)
How 2 teens 3-D printed a fidget spinner empire out of their high school science lab (Mic)
Buried in a massive wall of corporate speak, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the future of Facebook (Mic)
The Facebook Wall is dead — and Facebook is struggling to get personal again (Mic)
Why does everyone on the internet want to die? How suicide memes took over the web (Mic)
Millennial experts are over — meet the teenage thought leaders marketing Gen Z to the masses (Mic)
How two college students built a tool to fight fake news on Facebook using artificial intelligence (Mic)
How Rep. Eric Swalwell became the Snapchat king of Congress (The Hill)
Why is everyone tagging "Singapore" on Instagram? Stars say it helps their posts go viral (Mic)
Months before Vine's demise, its biggest stars plotted their escape (Mic)
A guide to the Bitmoiji dab-ception taking over your Snapchat timeline (Mic)
17 teens take us inside the world of Snapchat streaks, where friendships live or die (Mic)
Snapchat's new Snap Map update highlights the key difference between Snap and Instagram (Mic)
How Mark Zuckerberg wants to transform society through Facebook Groups (Mic)
A full archive of my writing for Mic can be found here.
How Asana built the best company culture in tech (Fast Company)
FYI you don't have to go to Columbia Journalism School to interview your idol.
Instagram Rapture: Chaos Ensues As the Platform Deletes Millions Of Accounts (Business Insider)
'Instagram Rapture' Claims Millions Of Celebrity Instagram Followers (Business Insider)
The New York Tech Scene Is Buzzing Over The Uber Scandal (Business Insider)
Tumblr Threw An Outrageous Carnival-Themed Party To Celebrate 2014 (Business Insider)
This Incubator Only Accepts Startups That Can Actually Improve The World (Business Insider)
Sorry, Silicon Valley: The Best Way To Build Your Startup Is To Travel The World (Business Insider)
A full archive of my writing for Business Insider can be found here.
Is there a magic number for Twitter followers? (Daily Dot)
Best Snapchat hacks: Snapchat tips, tricks, and secret functions (Daily Dot)
Your guide to advanced Twitter punctuation (Daily Dot)
I wrote a white paper studying how 35 top publishers are approaching distributed content and social media platforms for the American Press Institute: Distributed content: The best ways to build sustainable platform strategies
Giving the side eye to the camera while talking about Beyonce's vegan delivery startup in 2015.
Interviewing Congressman Rick Nolan at the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game.
Does every man have this shirt in his closet? New Instagram account pays tribute to THAT J. Crew gingham favorite (The Daily Mail)
OkCupid admits setting users up with 'awful' matches, hiding photos and manipulating profiles in mass psychological experiment (The Daily Mail)
Chipped nail? Call the manicure truck! How a former investment banker converted an Airstream trailer into a mobile beauty salon for time-short women (The Daily Mail)
Interviewing ex-Clinton Secret Service officer, Gary Byrne at the RNC.
'People often assume I'm transgender': Androgynous female model shatters gender stereotypes as she poses topless in boxer shorts for menswear campaign (The Daily Mail)
One cat-uccino please! FEMAIL meets the furry faces inside New York's very first cat cafe (The Daily Mail)
Read more of my work for the Daily Mail.
How Pitbull Conquered Facebook (BuzzFeed)
Why it's okay to be busy (Harper's Bazaar)
Why being too busy is totally fine (Quartz)
The Myth of the Lazy Millennial (Mental Floss)
Millennials Might Be More Like Your Grandparents Than You'd Think (Mental Floss)
What it's like to be harassed by Martin Shkreli, the most hated man in America (Mic)
Virtual Reality Is Full of Assholes Who Sexually Harass Me But I Can't Stop Going Back (Mic)
Interviewing YouTube star Joey Graceffa at Streamcon for People and Entertainment Weekly in 2015.
ON CAMERA INTERVIEWS
Glozell Dishes on Her New YouTube Channel (People)
Connor Franta: 'I'm Very Comfortable Being Me' Since Coming Out (People)
This Was the Moment 'Big Nik' Keswani Knew He'd Made It Big on Vine (People)
Find Out Which R&B Star Bart Baker Is Spoofing in His Next Video (People)
iJustine Talks Her Dream YouTube Collab – 'I Don't Know How It Hasn't Happened Yet' (People)
YouTube Star Joey Graceffa on How His Life Has Changed Since Coming Out (People)
Joey Graceffa on coming out: 'It's been very rewarding' (Entertainment Weekly)
YouTube star Louis Cole on trying to save the world, one vlog at a time (Entertainment Weekly)
Hannah Hart, Joey Graceffa, and more YouTube stars play the emoji association game (Entertainment Weekly)
iJustine really, really wants to work with GloZell (Entertainment Weekly)
Taryn Southern's new show is like the 'love child' of Howard Stern & Chelsea Handler (Entertainment Weekly)
Hannah Hart previews Electra Woman and Dyna Girl reboot at Stream Con (Entertainment Weekly)
Interviewing kids at the Congressional Baseball Game in June 2017.
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Why Some Videos Go Viral, According to the Internet's Video Queen (Adobe)
Inventing the Impossible: Storytelling Tips from Cyber Illusionist Marco Tempest (Adobe)
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Read more of my writing for Adobe.
SOCIAL CONTENT
Vines for People Magazine (RIP Vine)
When I worked in advertising I used to ghost write sponsored tweets for Verizon. Here are a couple of my favorite tweets that I wrote. lol