Irin Carmon Explained

Irin Carmon
Education:Harvard University (BA)
Occupation:political commentator, television personality, journalist

Irin Carmon [1] (born 1983/1984)[2] is an Israeli-American[3] journalist and commentator. She is a senior correspondent at New York Magazine,[4] and a CNN contributor.[5] She is co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Previously, she was a national reporter at MSNBC, covering women, politics, and culture for the website and on air. She was a visiting fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School.[6]

In 2011, she was named one of Forbes "30 under 30"[7] in media and featured in New York Magazine as a face of young feminism.[8] She received the November 2011 Sidney award from The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon.[9] Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014.[10]

Early life

Carmon is Jewish[11] and was born in Israel, the granddaughter of Zionists who lived in Palestine during World War II.[12] She grew up on Long Island.[13] She is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[14]

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.[15]

While at Harvard, Carmon wrote for The Harvard Crimson[16] and the Let's Go series of travel guides.[17] Her senior thesis was titled, "Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial."[18]

Career

Early in her career, Carmon wrote regularly for the Boston Globe,[19] the Village Voice,[20] and The Anniston Star.[13] She was a media reporter for the fashion-industry trade journal Women's Wear Daily from 2006 to 2009.[21]

Carmon was a Jezebel staff writer from 2009 to 2011.[22] She wrote a post calling The Daily Show a "boys' club where women's contributions are often ignored and dismissed”, and opining that then-correspondent Olivia Munn was only hired on the show because of her status as a sex symbol.[23] The women of the Daily Show responded with an open letter defending their workplace.[24] In response to criticism that she failed to provide adequate time for comment, Carmon posted three brief emails with one Daily Show publicist, which occurred one week before the story was published.[25] Two years later, Carmon wrote a polemic against her critics.[26]

From 2011 to 2013, Carmon was a staff writer for Salon.[27] Her Salon coverage of Eden Foods drew attention to the organic food company's lawsuit against the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act.[28] Her piece was used in an Appeals Court ruling as evidence against Eden Foods' claim of a religious freedom motive.[29] In October 2012, she and Jezebel founder Anna Holmes started the trending #sorryfeminists hashtag that mocked negative stereotypes of feminists.[30]

In June 2013, Carmon was hired full-time by MSNBC.[31] She has written for MSNBC.com and contributed on the shows The Reid Report, Melissa Harris-Perry, and All In with Chris Hayes.[32] 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."[10] In January 2015, New York Magazine reported that Carmon would be co-authoring the biography[33] Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Shana Knizhnik, the creator of the Notorious R.B.G. blog.[34] The book was released in October 2015[33] and debuted at #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list.[35] In February 2015, Carmon conducted an exclusive interview for MSNBC with Ruth Bader Ginsburg for The Rachel Maddow Show.[36]

In late 2017 and early 2018, Carmon teamed up with the Washington Post to break the news of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Charlie Rose,[37] as well as CBS’s knowledge of his conduct.[38] That work won a 2018 Mirror Award from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.[39]

In July 2018, Carmon was hired by New York Magazine,[4] as a senior correspondent. In November 2018, she was hired by CNN as a contributor.[40]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: How to pronounce Irin Carmon's name. Irin Carmon. 9 July 2018.
  2. News: Megan . McDonald . Journalist Irin Carmon on RBG, Women's Rights and Hope for the Future . Sarasota Magazine. January 7, 2019 . Carmon, 35, is a Harvard grad and senior correspondent for New York magazine who covers gender, social justice, politics and the law. .
  3. Web site: Irin Carmon. Twitter.
  4. Web site: Irin Carmon Joins New York Magazine As Senior Correspondent. New York Magazine. 18 July 2018 . 30 December 2018.
  5. Web site: 'Notorious RBG' Author Irin Carmon Hired by CNN as Contributor. The Wrap. 14 November 2018 . 30 December 2018.
  6. Web site: Irin Carmon - MSNBC. MSNBC. 10 May 2017. 1 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170301215120/http://irincarmon.people.msnbc.com/_tps/index. dead.
  7. Web site: Bercovici. Jeff. Media. Forbes Magazine. 2 January 2012.
  8. News: The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto. November 2011.
  9. Web site: Irin Carmon Wins November Sidney Award - Hillman Foundation. 10 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20111221024738/http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/thesidney/backstory/irin-carmon. 21 December 2011. dead.
  10. News: Mediaite Awards 2014: We Pick the Year's Very BEST in Media. December 17, 2014.
  11. Web site: I'm a Jew. 2020-09-21. Twitter. en.
  12. News: Carmon. Irin. Helen Thomas: When An Icon Disappoints. jezebel.com. June 7, 2010. February 14, 2015. December 20, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220192825/http://jezebel.com/5557093/helen-thomas-when-an-icon-disappoints. dead.
  13. News: Holmes. Anna. Good Enough To Eat Meet: Say Hello To Our Newest Ladyblogger. Jezebel. I should disclose my bias as an Israeli-born Jew, whose European grandparents and great-grandparents were among the few in their families to survive Nazi genocide because they were Zionists in what was then known as Palestine.. 2015-02-14. 2016-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220193151/http://jezebel.com/5400211/good-enough-to-eat-meet-say-hello-to-our-newest-ladyblogger. dead.
  14. https://twitter.com/yaleisp
  15. News: La Bella. Jeanenne. Alumnae Profile: Irin Carmon Class of 2001. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224822/http://www.waldorfgarden.org/uploaded/admissions/kathy/Blogs_Media/news-summer2012_2012.pdf. 2016-03-03. The News: The Waldorf School of Garden City. 2. Summer 2012. 65.
  16. News: Irin Carmon Writer Profile. The Harvard Crimson.
  17. Book: Notorious RBG (2015) : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg / . Worldcat.org . 27 October 2015. 9780062415820 . 1035830136 . 2017-05-17. Carmon . Irin . Knizhnik . Shana . HarperCollins .
  18. Web site: Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiración Artificial. Irin. Carmon. 1 January 2005. Harvard University. 10 May 2017. Google Books.
  19. News: Carmon. Irin. Israel rounds up migrants in deportation campaign. The Boston Globe. July 25, 2004.
  20. Web site: Irin Carmon - New York News, Food, Culture and Events - Village Voice. Village Voice. 10 May 2017. 14 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214163312/http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/irin-carmon/. dead.
  21. News: Irin Carmon. WWD.com. Women's Wear Daily.
  22. News: Carmon. Irin. Irin Carmon. Jezebel. 2015-02-14. 2020-11-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20201114122551/https://irin-carmon-old.kinja.com/. dead.
  23. News: Carmon. Irin. The Daily Show's Woman Problem. Jezebel. June 23, 2010. February 14, 2015. March 9, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170309022917/http://jezebel.com/5570545/comedy-of-errors-behind-the-scenes-of-the--daily-shows-lady-problem. dead.
  24. News: Itzkoff. Dave. In Open Letter, Women of The Daily Show Respond to Charges of Sexism. New York Times. July 6, 2010.
  25. News: Carmon. Irin. My Daily Show Emails. https://web.archive.org/web/20120831072512/https://www.salon.com/2012/07/20/my_daily_show_emails/. August 31, 2012. Salon.com. July 20, 2012.
  26. News: Carmon. Irin. Did I ruin journalism?. Salon.com. July 23, 2012.
  27. News: Irin Carmon. Salon.
  28. News: Carmon. Irin. Organic Eden Foods' quiet right-wing agenda. Salon.
  29. News: Carmon. Irin. Birth Control, the Supreme Court and me. MSNBC.com. November 25, 2013.
  30. News: Marcotte. Amanda. Sorry, Feminists. Slate. October 8, 2012.
  31. News: Sterne. Peter. MSNBC.com Hires Irin Carmon, Timothy Noah, and Others. June 17, 2013.
  32. Web site: Irin Carmon - MSNBC. MSNBC. 10 May 2017.
  33. Web site: Notorious RBG - Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik - Hardcover. HarperCollins US. 2016-02-08. World. Archipelago.
  34. News: Stoeffel. Kat. Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme. January 7, 2015.
  35. News: Best Sellers - The New York Times. The New York Times . 2016-04-12.
  36. Web site: Joyella. Mark. Adweek. TVNewser. 'Notorious RBG': MSNBC's Exclusive with Justice Ginsburg. February 12, 2015.
  37. News: Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them — with nudity, groping and lewd calls . The Washington Post . 30 December 2018.
  38. News: Charlie Rose's misconduct was widespread at CBS and three managers were warned, investigation finds . The Washington Post . 30 December 2018.
  39. Web site: Presenting the 2018 Mirror Award Winners . Syracuse University News . 20 June 2018 . 30 December 2018.
  40. Web site: Jon. Levine. 'Notorious RBG' Author Irin Carmon Hired by CNN as Contributor. TheWrap. TheWrap News, Inc.. Los Angeles, California. November 14, 2018. December 30, 2018.
  41. News: Stoeffel. Kat. Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181114053352/https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/meme-blogger-will-co-author-rbgs-biography.html. 2018-11-14. January 7, 2015. New York Magazine.

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