Jessica Coen
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Jessica Coen is the deputy online editor for New York magazine. Prior to that she had worked in a similar position for Vanity Fair magazine and had gained public notoriety as the former editor of the influential weblog Gawker.com. She joined Gawker in late August 2004, when she took over for Choire Sicha. Coen and other Gawker editors are known for sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek coverage of all things in the higher echelons of the media world.
The Michigan native graduated from the University of Michigan before joining Teach For America and moving to California, where she taught English at a South Los Angeles high school. Coen then worked as an executive assistant at a major television studio, where she eventually started her own blog.
She had been accepted to attend Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism before she was offered the job at Gawker by Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton. She also writes a personal weblog, freelances for print (for publications like the New York Times, New York Observer and ELLE), and has appeared on television (on programs such as the Today Show and the now defunct Topic A with Tina Brown).
