Irin Carmon

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Irin Carmon
File:Irin Carmon Headshot.jpg
Carmon in 2013
Residence Brooklyn, NY
Ethnicity Jewish[1]
Education Harvard University (2005)
Occupation political commentator, television personality

Irin Carmon is an Israeli-American[2] 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.[3]

In 2011, she was named one of Forbes' "30 under 30"[4] in media and featured in New York Magazine as a face of young feminism.[5] She received the November 2011 Sidney award from The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon.[6] Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014.[7]

Early life

Carmon was born in Israel, the granddaughter of Zionists who lived in the Palestine region during World War II.[1] She grew up on Long Island.[8]

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.[9]

While at Harvard, Carmon wrote for The Harvard Crimson[10] and Let's Go (book series).[11] Her senior thesis was titled, "Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiracion Artificial."[12]

Career

Early in her career, Carmon wrote regularly for the Boston Globe,[13] the Village Voice,[14] and The Anniston Star.[8] 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[28] Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Shana Knizhnik, the creator of the Notorious R.B.G. blog.[29] The book was released in October 2015[28] and debuted at #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list.[30] In February 2015, Carmon conducted an exclusive interview for MSNBC with Ruth Bader Ginsburg for The Rachel Maddow Show.[31]

References

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  3. ↑ http://irincarmon.people.msnbc.com/_tps/index#
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  6. ↑ Irin Carmon Wins November Sidney Award | Hillman Foundation
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  11. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2014077720/
  12. ↑ https://books.google.com/books/about/Genealogies_of_Catastrophe.html?id=w5aQNwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/irin-carmon/
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  26. ↑ http://irincarmon.people.msnbc.com/
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