Emerging Journalists: On Culture Writing

Name: Emerging Journalists: On Culture Writing
Start: 2024-11-16T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19104

Schedule

Sat Nov 16 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19104 | Philadelphia, PA

Join us for a conversation about “culture writing” — writing about music, movies, books, TV, gaming, art, and other modes of cultural expression — with four early-career alumni journalists. Moderated by Meg Gladieux (C'23, GED’24), the 2024-2025 KWH Junior Fellows Prize winner, panelists will include Beatrice Forman (C'22), a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer; Taylor Hosking (C'17), a freelance culture journalist and podcast producer; Samuel Yellowhorse Kesler (C'20), an assistant producer at Planet Money; and Amanda Silberling (C'18), a senior reporter at TechCrunch.
BEATRICE FORMAN is a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer and a contributor to Taylor Swift, a retrospective on the pop star published by Hearst earlier this year. At The Inquirer, Beatrice specializes in coverage of her three favorite things: How people build community on the internet, Philly's pop culture, and — yes — Taylor. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, where she was editor-in-chief of 34th Street Magazine. Beatrice has reported on memes for Vox and Cosmo and was previously a deputy editor at Billy Penn and WHYY. In her spare time, Beatrice is an at-large director for the Society of Professional Journalists, coordinates the national journalism collaborative Democracy Day, and spoils Mango, the West Philly stray cat she rescued.
TAYLOR HOSKING is a culture journalist and producer. At Penn she started the DP's first culture podcast called In the Cut. She came into national media as a writer in The Atlantic's editorial fellowship program followed by becoming a culture staff writer at VICE covering entertainment and pop culture. Then she went into producing culture podcast talk shows and audio documentaries for places like Netflix, HBO, SONY, NPR and Audible. She's sold music culture related podcast documentaries to NPR and HBO, including an HBO podcast Insecure Interludes about the music culture impact of Insecure's soundtrack. Now, she develops and creates both podcasts and films as a freelance producer through her production company, 93rd Street Media, in New York City.
SAMUEL YELLOWHORSE KESLER is an Assistant Producer at Planet Money based in Philadelphia. He studied English at the University of Pennsylvania. While in school, he wrote for the Daily Pennsylvanian , The Key from WXPN, 34th Street Magazine, the Penn Gazette, and the WQHS Radio Blog. He was Programming Assistant Intern at the World Cafe from WXPN for three years, and interned with NPR’s Ask Me Another in 2020. He was also Lead Producer for the podcast Side Effects: A COVID-19 Diary, and a News Assistant at NPR’s All Things Considered. He was also the inaugural Code Switch Fellow in 2021.
AMANDA SILBERLING is a senior reporter at TechCrunch, covering the intersection of technology and culture. Through her writing, she analyzes the inner workings of big tech and social platforms to explain how these powers shape our lives, from entertainment to politics. Her work has also appeared on NPR, MTV, Business Insider, Polygon and the Kenyon Review. Alongside sci-fi writer/attorney ISABEL J. KIM (C'18), she is the co-host and co-creator of the internet culture podcast Wow if True, which is a Multitude member show.
(moderator) MEG GLADIEUX is an educator and freelance writer. She currently works at Healthy NewsWorks, a non-profit which teaches journalism in Philadelphia-area schools, and as an assistant to author and journalist Stephen Fried. At Penn, she co-founded The Woodlands Magazine and was a features writer and editor at 34th Street Magazine. She is the 2024-2025 Junior Fellows Prize winner at the Kelly Writers House.