Politics. Culture. Media. Music.
Joanna Weiss is the editor of Harvard Magazine and a longtime journalist based in Boston. Her work has appeared in POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic,Slate, The Economist,Pacific Standard,Boston Magazine, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and the book Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election. She is a co-author of Taylor Swift: Album By Album (October 2025, Quarto Books). Joanna spent 16 years at the Boston Globe, where she was a metro reporter, feature writer, television critic, and op-ed columnist. She has appeared on national and local television radio and moderated panels for Northeastern, Politico, the Showtime television network, and more.
Joanna also writes rock songs with her unexpectedly-renowned band, The Lazy Susans. Her Boston Magazine article “For Those Moms About to Rock” has been optioned for film by 20th Century Studios for a Tiwary Entertainment Group production, starring Amy Adams.
She is currently perfecting the use of the wah pedal.
Journalism
Joanna writes about politics and culture for a range of national publications, and is a contributing editor to POLITICO Magazine.
TV and Radio
Joanna’s TV and radio appearances include CNN, MSNBC, CBSN, NPR, SiriusXM, Monocle24, and other local, national and international news outlets. A frequent contributor to Boston’s WBUR and GBH, she lectures 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 was published by Northeastern University from 2018-2022.
Milkshake
Joanna’s debut novel, a satirical send-up of politics and motherhood, is available on Amazon.
For original Lazy Susans music — with more coming soon — click here.