1. Jessica Hopper was born on September 5,1976 and is an American writer.
11 Facts About Jessica Hopper
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Jessica Hopper published The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, a compilation of her essays, reported pieces, zines, and reviews, in May 2015.
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Jessica Hopper was born in Indiana and grew up in Minneapolis.
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Jessica Hopper's mother was a newspaper editor, her father a journalist and her stepfather a prosecutor, all of which Hopper has described as fueling her interest in journalism and investment in finding the truth more generally.
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The magazine didn't respond, but Jessica Hopper started her own fanzine.
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Since then, Jessica Hopper has written for publications including the Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reader, and Spin.
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Jessica Hopper was a music supervisor for This American Life and the first music editor of the radical teen-girl webzine Rookie.
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Alongside her writing, Jessica Hopper worked in public relations and managing bands until her late 20s when she quit to write full-time.
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Jessica Hopper was a senior editor of Pitchfork and the editor in chief of the print quarterly The Pitchfork Review from October 2014 until November 2015.
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Jessica Hopper was appointed editorial director of music for MTV News in 2016.
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Jessica Hopper directed a four-part documentary series called Women Who Rock, which debuted in July 2022 on EPIX.