Hello!

I’m Ann Friedman, a magazine journalist who loves the internet.

I used to be the executive editor of GOOD, and now I’m a freelance writer and editor. More specifically, I write a politics column for NYmag.com and am one of the co-founders of a crowd-funded magazine called Tomorrow. I curate the work of women journalists at LadyJournos!, make hand-drawn pie charts for The Hairpin, and dispense animated advice for journalists at the Columbia Journalism Review. The advice column is based on my short-lived but highly relevant GIF blog, Real Talk From Your Editor. In July 2012, CJR named me one of 20 women to watch. I also do a lot of speaking, mostly at journalism and design conferences.

My work has appeared in The New Republic, NewYorker.com, ELLE, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles magazine, Time Out Chicago, The Gentlewoman, The American Prospect, TheAtlantic.com, Refinery29, Bookforum, and more.

I grew up in eastern Iowa, went to school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and have since ping-ponged between the coasts. I prefer the west. I live and work in an excellent little bungalow in Los Angeles.


Would you like to hire me to write or edit something? Or ask me a question? Or send me an amazing GIF you just found? Email me! I’ll respond if you’re nice.

I look like this:

(I admit I cropped a bloody Mary out of that photograph.)

Really, I look more like this:

Photos by Stephanie Gonot. And the awesome dad-rocky logo was made by Dylan C. Lathrop. Thanks, talented friends!
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