Irin Carmon

Irin Carmon
Born1983 or 1984 (age 40–41)
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Occupation(s)political commentator, television personality, journalist

Irin Carmon (English: /ɪˈrɪn kɑːrˈmoʊn/)[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]

Bibliography

  • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Dey Street Books. 2015. ISBN 978-0062415837.[41]
  • Let's Go 2003 Italy. Let's Go Travel Guides. 2002. ISBN 0312305818.
  • Let's Go 2003 Spain and Portugal: Including Morocco. Let's Go Travel Guides. 2002. ISBN 0312305958.

References

  1. ^ Irin Carmon. "How to pronounce Irin Carmon's name". Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  2. ^ McDonald, Megan (January 7, 2019). "Journalist Irin Carmon on RBG, Women's Rights and Hope for the Future". Sarasota Magazine. Carmon, 35, is a Harvard grad and senior correspondent for New York magazine who covers gender, social justice, politics and the law.
  3. ^ "Irin Carmon". Twitter.
  4. ^ a b "Irin Carmon Joins New York Magazine As Senior Correspondent". New York Magazine. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  5. ^ "'Notorious RBG' Author Irin Carmon Hired by CNN as Contributor". The Wrap. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Irin Carmon - MSNBC". MSNBC. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  7. ^ Bercovici, Jeff. "Media". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  8. ^ "The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto". November 2011.
  9. ^ "Irin Carmon Wins November Sidney Award - Hillman Foundation". Archived from the original on 21 December 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Mediaite Awards 2014: We Pick the Year's Very BEST in Media". December 17, 2014.
  11. ^ "I'm a Jew". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  12. ^ Carmon, Irin (June 7, 2010). "Helen Thomas: When An Icon Disappoints". jezebel.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  13. ^ a b Holmes, Anna. "Good Enough To Eat Meet: Say Hello To Our Newest Ladyblogger". Jezebel. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2015-02-14. 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.
  14. ^ [1], Twitter.
  15. ^ La Bella, Jeanenne (Summer 2012). "Alumnae Profile: Irin Carmon Class of 2001" (PDF). Vol. 65, no. 2. The News: The Waldorf School of Garden City. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03.
  16. ^ "Irin Carmon Writer Profile". The Harvard Crimson.
  17. ^ Carmon, Irin; Knizhnik, Shana (27 October 2015). Notorious RBG (2015) : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg /. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062415820. OCLC 1035830136. Retrieved 2017-05-17 – via Worldcat.org.
  18. ^ Carmon, Irin (1 January 2005). "Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiración Artificial". Harvard University. Retrieved 10 May 2017 – via Google Books.
  19. ^ Carmon, Irin (July 25, 2004). "Israel rounds up migrants in deportation campaign". The Boston Globe.
  20. ^ "Irin Carmon - New York News, Food, Culture and Events - Village Voice". Village Voice. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  21. ^ "Irin Carmon". WWD.com. Women's Wear Daily.
  22. ^ Carmon, Irin. "Irin Carmon". Jezebel. Archived from the original on 2020-11-14. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
  23. ^ Carmon, Irin (June 23, 2010). "The Daily Show's Woman Problem". Jezebel. Archived from the original on March 9, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  24. ^ Itzkoff, Dave (July 6, 2010). "In Open Letter, Women of The Daily Show Respond to Charges of Sexism". New York Times.
  25. ^ Carmon, Irin (July 20, 2012). "My Daily Show Emails". Salon.com. Archived from the original on August 31, 2012.
  26. ^ Carmon, Irin (July 23, 2012). "Did I ruin journalism?". Salon.com.
  27. ^ "Irin Carmon". Salon.
  28. ^ Carmon, Irin. "Organic Eden Foods' quiet right-wing agenda". Salon.
  29. ^ Carmon, Irin (November 25, 2013). "Birth Control, the Supreme Court and me". MSNBC.com.
  30. ^ Marcotte, Amanda (October 8, 2012). "Sorry, Feminists". Slate.
  31. ^ Sterne, Peter (June 17, 2013). "MSNBC.com Hires Irin Carmon, Timothy Noah, and Others".
  32. ^ "Irin Carmon - MSNBC". MSNBC. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  33. ^ a b Archipelago, World. "Notorious RBG - Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik - Hardcover". HarperCollins US. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  34. ^ Stoeffel, Kat (January 7, 2015). "Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme".
  35. ^ "Best Sellers - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  36. ^ Joyella, Mark (February 12, 2015). "'Notorious RBG': MSNBC's Exclusive with Justice Ginsburg". TVNewser. Adweek.
  37. ^ "Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them — with nudity, groping and lewd calls". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  38. ^ "Charlie Rose's misconduct was widespread at CBS and three managers were warned, investigation finds". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  39. ^ "Presenting the 2018 Mirror Award Winners". Syracuse University News. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  40. ^ Levine, Jon (November 14, 2018). "'Notorious RBG' Author Irin Carmon Hired by CNN as Contributor". TheWrap. Los Angeles, California: TheWrap News, Inc. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  41. ^ Stoeffel, Kat (January 7, 2015). "Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-11-14.