Jessica Bennett

Biography

Jessica Bennett is an award winning writer, editor and producer with a decade of experience in magazine journalism and online media. She writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and is Editor for Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In foundation, which works to encourage women to pursue leadership roles.Bennett spent a year as executive editor of Tumblr, where she launched an ambitious multimedia initiative to produce original journalism and oversaw Tumblr's award-winning video department. Previously, Bennett spent seven years at Newsweek Magazine (and later, Newsweek/Daily Beast), where she was a reporter, editor, and ultimately senior writer, focused on longform features, multimedia and commentary. She has written cover stories on young women and marriage, cyberbullying, gay rights, and was the coauthor of a special report about sexism in the media to mark the 40th anniversary of a landmark gender discrimination suit against Newsweek. That lawsuit, and Bennett's personal story, are now documented in "The Good Girls Revolt," a book by Newsweek's first female senior editor, Lynn Povich.A native of Seattle, Jessica's work has been honored by the Society for Professional Journalists, the Newswomen's Club of New York, GLAAD and the New York Press Club, which named her the city's best young journalist.

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