Her Salon coverage of Eden Foods drew attention to the organic food company's lawsuit against the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act. įrom 2011 to 2013, Carmon was a staff writer for Salon. Two years later, Carmon noted her appreciation for changes at The Daily Show since the controversy.

In response to allegations that she had failed to provide adequate time for comment, Carmon posted her email thread with the Daily Show publicist which took place one week before the story was published. The women of the Daily Show responded by publishing an open letter defending their workplace. 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. Ĭarmon was a Jezebel staff writer from 2009 to 2011. She was a media reporter for the fashion-industry trade journal Women's Wear Daily from 2006 to 2009. Her senior thesis was titled, 'Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial.' Career Įarly in her career, Carmon wrote regularly for the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, and The Anniston Star. While at Harvard, Carmon wrote for The Harvard Crimson and the Let's Go series of travel guides. Ī 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. She is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Early life Ĭarmon is Jewish and was born in Israel, the granddaughter of Zionists who lived in Palestine during World War II. Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014. She received the November 2011 Sidney award from The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon. In 2011, she was named one of Forbes' '30 under 30' in media and featured in New York Magazine as a face of young feminism. She was a visiting fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School. Previously, she was a national reporter at MSNBC, covering women, politics, and culture for the website and on air. She is co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She is a senior correspondent at New York Magazine, and a CNN contributor. Irin Carmon ( English: / ɪ ˈ r ɪ n k ɑːr ˈ m oʊ n/) (born 1983/1984) is an Israeli-American journalist and commentator.

Political commentator, television personality, journalist

Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon