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Anne Helen Petersen

Anne Helen Petersen received her Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Texas, where she studied the industrial history of the gossip industry. After teaching in the university setting for several years, she transitioned to full-time feature writing, most recently with BuzzFeed. Her work has appeared in The Believer, The Awl, The Hairpin, Laptham’s Quarterly, The Baffler, Pacific Standard, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

BookmarkedApril 30, 2015

Anne Helen Petersen’s Ten Writers on Entertainment

By Anne Helen Petersen

I come to journalism from an untraditional background (I received a PhD in media studies and spent three years as a professor before coming…

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