Jenna Wortham Biography
Jenna Wortham is an American journalist. She works as a culture writer for The New York Times Magazine. She co-hosts The New York Times podcast Still Processing.
How old is Jenna Wortham? – Age
The American journalist is 38 years old as of 4th November 2020. She was born in 1982 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
Who are Jenna Wortham Parents? – Father and mother
The American journalist grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. She was raised by both her parents but much is not stated in public about her private life. She enjoys her life just private like that. It is not known if she has siblings or not.
Jenna Wortham Education
The American journalist studied medical anthropology at the University of Virginia. She graduated in 2004.
Is Jenna Wortham in a relationship? – Spouse
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about She’s past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
Jenna Wortham Career
The American journalist moved to San Francisco after college, where she interned for San Francisco magazine and Girlfriend magazine and wrote for SFist, eventually becoming a technology and culture reporter for Wired. She joined The New York Times in 2008, working as a technology and business reporter, then moved to the Times Magazine in 2014.
Wortham’s work has also appeared in Matter, The Awl, Bust, The Hairpin, Vogue, The Morning News, and The Fader among other publications. Pi.co calls her “one of those rare writers who is able to explain the shapeshifting culture of the younger and newer internet.”
In 2012, the journalist was included in the Root 100 list. The Fader named Wortham’s piece on The Shade Room “Instagram’s TMZ” to its list of “The Best Culture Writing of 2015.” In addition to praise for her technology reporting, she has been recognized for her commentary on a range of cultural topics.
Other topics in Wortham’s writing have included queer identity and race and gender on television. At Rookie, Diamond Sharp praised Wortham’s “incisive writing, and the generous way she moves within the world. She is, with no hyperbole, one of the most important minds working in media.”
Wortham’s work appears in the anthologies Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York (2014) and An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin (2013). With Kimberly Drew, she edited a collection entitled Black Futures, published in December 2020 by Chris Jackson’s One World imprint at Random House.
The American journalist is also writing the essay collection, Work of Body, about her “formative experiences as a queer Black person, against the backdrop of technology and the larger history of Black bodies in America”. Work of Body will be published by Penguin press.
In 2017, she was the Zora Neale Hurston Fellow at the first Jack Jones Literary Arts retreat. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in 2018. In 2020, she and Morris were also named Kelly Writers House Fellows.
In September 2016, the journalist and New York Times colleague Wesley Morris launched a culture podcast called still processing, produced by the Times and podcasting startup Pineapple street media. The show debuted to strongly favorable reviews and made year-end “best of” lists at The Atlantic, The Huffington post, and IndieWire. In 2020, the podcast was nominated American society of Magazine Editors Magazine Award.
Jenna Wortham Net worth
The American journalist has an estimated net worth of around $100 thousand to $400 thousand as of 2021.