Ann Friedman
| Ann L. Friedman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1982 (age 34–35) Dubuque, Iowa, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | University of Missouri, 2004 |
| Occupation | Editor, journalist, freelance writer, and blogger |
| Years active | since 2004 |
| Employer | Tomorrow (magazine), GOOD (magazine), The American Prospect (magazine) |
| Home town | Dubuque, Iowa |
| Awards | Hearst Award, 2004 Utne Media Award (nomination), 2013 |
| Website | annfriedman |
Ann Friedman is an American magazine editor, journalist, podcaster, and pie chart artist. She writes about gender, politics, and social issues. She sends out a weekly email newsletter. Previously, she was deputy editor for The American Prospect, executive editor at the Los Angeles-based GOOD magazine, and a co-founder of the employee-driven, crowd-sourced spin-off Tomorrow magazine.
Ann Friedman's hometown is Dubuque, Iowa. She began her journalism career there as an intern with the Telegraph Herald in 2001. She is an alumna of the University of Missouri, where she graduated from its School of Journalism in 2004. Ann Friedman lived in New York City for over a year and then made Los Angeles her permanent residence. She identifies herself in public speaking engagements and in her work as a feminist.
Friedman started off at the Mother Jones' copy desk. Her online editing career began when she took the managing editor position for AlterNet and became an editor at Feministing. After taking a position with The American Prospect as web editor she was promoted to deputy editor from 2008 to 2010. She wrote freelance before her next editing position. In March 2011, Friedman became the executive editor at GOOD magazine. After GOOD fired staff, she co-founded Tomorrow (magazine).
Her freelance writings have been published by Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Newsweek, Glamour, ELLE, and Columbia Journalism Review. Her feminist writings and commentary about politics, popular culture, attitudes about men and women and gay rights, and dating and sex have been widely referenced and quoted by other journalists and editorial writers.
Friedman writes a politics column at NYMag.com, publishes pie-charts at The Hairpin, disperses RealTalk advice for journalists at the Columbia Journalism Review, and contributes to The New Republic. She is a proponent of incorporating GIFs in journalism.
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