Emily Nussbaum

Emily Nussbaum
Born	1966 (age 50–51) United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Television critic
Spouse(s)	Clive Thompson

Emily Nussbaum (born 1966) is a Pulitzer Prize winning television critic for The New Yorker.

Nussbaum was born in the United States to mother Toby Nussbaum (née Sheinfeld) and Bernard "Bernie" Nussbaum, who served as White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Nussbaum graduated from Oberlin College in 1988. She went on to get a master's degree in poetry from New York University and started a doctoral program in literature, but decided not to pursue teaching.

After living in Providence, Rhode Island, and Atlanta, Georgia, Nussbaum started her early career writing reviews of TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and posting at the website Television Without Pity. She began writing for Lingua Franca and served as Editor-in-Chief of Nerve. She also wrote for Slate and The New York Times.

Nussbaum then worked at New York magazine, where she was the creator of the Approval Matrix and wrote about culture and television. She was at New York for seven years and was the Culture Editor.

In 2011, she became the TV critic at The New Yorker, taking over from Nancy Franklin.

Nussbaum is married to journalist Clive Thompson. They have two children.

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