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2007
Andy Towle, Founder
Home Blog: Towleroad
Andy Towle’s experience in media and entertainment spans several industries. He currently writes and runs the widely-read gay news blog Towleroad. Before Towleroad, he was Editor in Chief of Genre magazine, a nationally distributed gay men’s lifestyle publication, and Editor at Large for The Out Traveler, a national quarterly publication produced by LPI Media. Prior to that he was a Music Editor for Tribe Online USA, where he produced and edited a content-heavy website for an Australia-based media company. He worked in feature film development at Twentieth Century Fox for four years, assisting in the development of over thirty projects for their Feature Animation and Family Films divisions. He holds degrees in Art History and English from Vassar College, and was awarded a Wallace Stegner graduate fellowship at Stanford University, as well as two writing fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His writing has been published widely.
Jon Barrett
Day Job: O at Home
Jon Barrett is the features director of O at Home, an Oprah magazine, and a former senior editor at Cargo (where he covered the tech beat), Real Simple, and The Advocate magazines. Hes also worked as a freelance editor at People, Time Out New York, and Womens Wear Daily and is the author of Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham, which was published in 2002 by Alyson Books. He has a masters degree from Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism and a bachelors degree in communications from Idaho State University. He lives in New York City.
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Robbie Daw
Home Blog: Chart Rigger
Robbie Daw is the creator of pop music blog Chart Rigger and managing editor of Instinct magazine. After obtaining a communications media degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), he fled the green hills of Western PA to pursue a life in Los Angeles in 1999. In addition to working in production and doing on-air interviews for E!'s Mysteries & Scandals and Revealed With Jules Asner, Robbie served as Instinct's photo editor before assuming the position of managing editor. He also spent a year doing entertainment segments for Clear Channel's syndicated Radio With A Twist show.
Using the alias J'ason D'luv, Robbie created Chart Rigger in January 2005 as an outlet for a lifetime's worth of chart-position geekdom and pop music trivia.
Kevin Sessums
Home Blog: Mississippi Sissy: The Blog
Kevin Sessums was for 14 years a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine and for 4 years served in the same capacity for Allure magazine. Before that he was Executive Editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. His other work has appeared in Travel+Leisure, Out, Playboy, and Elle magazines. His recent memoir from St. Martins Press, Mississippi Sissy, was on the New York Times Bestseller List and nominated for a Quill Award. The trade paperback of Mississippi Sissy will be out in March from Picador. He attended the Juilliard School of Drama.
Kenneth Walsh
Home Blog: kenneth in the 212
Kenneth Walsh is a writer and editor based in New York City. A graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication, his career in media spans nearly two decades, with reporting and editing gigs at The Arizona Republic, The Orange County Register, PRN, USA Today, Details, Us Weekly, TheStreet.com and The New York Times News Service.
He was born and raised in suburban Detroit through age 12, then grew up the rest of the way in Phoenix. As an adult he lived in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., before settling in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in 1998.
In 2005 he began writing the Weblog kenneth in the (212), which recently passed the one-millionth unique visitor mark. In early 2007 Walsh had his first personal essay published in Instinct magazine and is currently working a collection of short stories.
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