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Joanna Weiss is a Boston-based writer and editor, a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine, and a former columnist, television critic, and political reporter at the Boston Globe. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The Economist, Pacific Standard, and Boston Magazine, and was anthologized in the book Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election.
Joanna’s television and radio appearances include CNN, NPR, PBS, SiriusXM, the BBC, Monocle24, WBUR, and GBH, along with radio stations across the U.S. and podcasts from such outlets as The Skimm and Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics. She was the founding editor of Experience magazine, published by Northeastern University. Joanna lectures on media and politics at Northeastern and other universities around Boston, and has moderated panels for Politico, the Showtime television network, Boston.com, and more. She started her career covering Louisiana politics for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
She also writes rock songs with her unexpectedly-renowned band, The Lazy Susans.
Freelance journalism
Joanna writes about politics and culture for a range of national publications, and is a contributing editor to POLITICO Magazine, where she merges her experience as a political reporter and an entertainment writer to analyze politics from a cultural lens.
TV and Radio
Joanna has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, CBSN, NPR, SiriusXM, Monocle24, and other national and international news outlets, and has been a regular contributor to Boston’s WBUR and WGBH. She has moderated panels for Northeastern University, Showtime, Boston.com, and others, and has lectured on media and politics at universities around Boston and beyond.
Experience Magazine
An award-winning magazine telling stories at the intersection of humanity and technology.
Experience is published by Northeastern University.
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Milkshake
Joanna’s debut novel, a satirical send-up of politics and motherhood, is available on Amazon.