Irin Carmon

Irin Carmon

Carmon in 2013
Education Harvard University (2005)
Occupation political commentator, television personality

Irin Carmon is a journalist and commentator. She is a national reporter at MSNBC, covering women, politics, and culture for the website and on air. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School.[1]

In 2011, she was named one of Forbes' "30 under 30"[2] in media and featured in New York Magazine as a face of young feminism.[3] She received the November 2011 Sidney award from The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon.[4] Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014.[5]

Early life

Carmon was born in Israel, the granddaughter of Zionists who lived in the Palestine region during World War II.[6] She grew up on Long Island.[7]

A graduate of Waldorf School of Garden City in 2001, Carmon attended Harvard College and graduated in 2005 with an AB in Literature, magna cum laude. [8]

While at Harvard, Carmon wrote for The Harvard Crimson[9] and Let's Go (book series).[10] Her senior thesis was titled, "Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiracion Artificial."[11]

Career

Early in her career, Carmon wrote regularly for the Boston Globe,[12] the Village Voice,[13] and The Anniston Star.[14] She was a media reporter for the fashion-industry trade journal Women's Wear Daily from 2006 to 2009.[15]

Carmon was a Jezebel (website) staff writer from 2009 to 2011.[16] She wrote a post calling The Daily Show a "boys' club where women's contributions are often ignored and dismissed."[17] The women of the Daily Show responded by publishing an open letter defending their workplace.[18] Carmon posted a week-long email thread with the Daily Show publicist in response to allegations that she had failed to provide adequate time for comment.[19] Two years later, Carmon noted her appreciation for changes at The Daily Show since the controversy.[20]

From 2011 to 2013, Carmon was a staff writer for Salon (website).[21] Her Salon coverage of Eden Foods drew attention to the organic food company's lawsuit against the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act.[22] Her piece was used in an Appeals Court ruling as evidence against Eden Foods' claim of a religious freedom motive.[23] In October 2012, she and Jezebel founder Anna Holmes started the trending #sorryfeminists hashtag that mocked negative stereotypes of feminists.[24]

In June 2013, Carmon was hired full-time by MSNBC.[25] She has written for MSNBC.com and contributed on the shows The Reid Report, Melissa Harris-Perry, and All In with Chris Hayes.[26] Mediaite named her in a four-way tie among the "Best TV pundits" of 2014 for bringing "a comprehensive understanding to women's health and justice issues that goes beyond the usual talking points."[27] In January 2015, New York Magazine reported that Carmon would be co-authoring the biography Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Shana Knizhnik, the creator of the Notorious R.B.G. Blog.[28] In February 2015, Carmon conducted an exclusive interview for MSNBC with Ruth Bader Ginsburg for The Rachel Maddow Show.[29]

References

  1. ↑ http://irincarmon.people.msnbc.com/_tps/index#
  2. ↑ Bercovici, Jeff. "Media". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto". November 2011.
  4. ↑ Irin Carmon Wins November Sidney Award | Hillman Foundation
  5. ↑ "Mediaite Awards 2014: We Pick the Year’s Very BEST in Media". December 17, 2014.
  6. ↑ Carmon, Irin (June 7, 2010). "Helen Thomas: When An Icon Disappoints". jezebel.com.
  7. ↑ Holmes, Anna. "Good Enough To Eat Meet: Say Hello To Our Newest Ladyblogger". Jezebel.
  8. ↑ La Bella, Jeanenne (Summer 2012). "Alumnae Profile: Irin Carmon Class of 2001" (Volume 65 No. 2). The News: The Waldorf School of Garden City.
  9. ↑ "Irin Carmon Writer Profile". The Harvard Crimson.
  10. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2014077720/
  11. ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Genealogies_of_Catastrophe.html?id=w5aQNwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
  12. ↑ Carmon, Irin (July 25, 2004). "Israel rounds up migrants in deportation campaign". The Boston Globe.
  13. ↑ http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/irin-carmon/
  14. ↑ Holmes, Anna. "Good Enough To Eat Meet: Say Hello To Our Newest Ladyblogger". Jezebel.
  15. ↑ "Irin Carmon". WWD.com (Women's Wear Daily).
  16. ↑ Carmon, Irin. "Irin Carmon". Jezebel.
  17. ↑ Carmon, Irin. "The Daily Show's Woman Problem". Jezebel.
  18. ↑ Itzkoff, Dave (July 6, 2010). "In Open Letter, Women of ‘The Daily Show’ Respond to Charges of Sexism". New York Times.
  19. ↑ Carmon, Irin (July 20, 2012). "My Daily Show Emails". Salon.com.
  20. ↑ Carmon, Irin (July 23, 2012). "Did I ruin journalism?". Salon.com.
  21. ↑ "Irin Carmon". Salon.
  22. ↑ Carmon, Irin. "Organic Eden Foods’ quiet right-wing agenda". Salon.
  23. ↑ Carmon, Irin (November 25, 2013). "Birth Control, the Supreme Court and me". MSNBC.com.
  24. ↑ Marcotte, Amanda (October 8, 2012). "Sorry, Feminists". Slate.
  25. ↑ Sterne, Peter (June 17, 2013). "MSNBC.com Hires Irin Carmon, Timothy Noah, and Others".
  26. ↑ http://irincarmon.people.msnbc.com/
  27. ↑ "Mediaite Awards 2014: We Pick the Year’s Very BEST in Media". December 17, 2014.
  28. ↑ Stoeffel, Kat (January 7, 2015). "Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme".
  29. ↑ Joyella, Mark (February 12, 2015). "'Notorious RBG': MSNBC's Exclusive with Justice Ginsburg". TVNewser. Adweek.

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