1. Virginia Heffernan was born on August 8,1969 and is an American journalist and cultural critic.
15 Facts About Virginia Heffernan
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Virginia Heffernan has worked as a senior editor for Harper's Magazine, as a founding editor of Talk, and as a TV critic for Slate.
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Virginia Heffernan's 2016 book Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art argued that the Internet is a "massive and collective work of art", one that is a "work in progress", and that the suggested deterioration of attention spans in response to it is a myth.
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Virginia Heffernan is dual graduate of Harvard University with a master's degree in English literature in 1993 and a Ph.
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Virginia Heffernan served as a senior editor at Harper's Magazine and was a founding editor of Talk magazine.
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In February 2012, Virginia Heffernan became a national correspondent for Yahoo News, where she covered the 2012 presidential election and wrote about subjects related to media, technology, politics, and culture.
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In June 2013, Virginia Heffernan began a series of articles for Yahoo News entitled "Glass Menagerie," which involved her experiences using Google Glass OHMD.
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Virginia Heffernan is a regular contributor to The New York Times, as well as The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Mother Jones, Politico, and many other publications.
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In parallel to writing on the subject, Virginia Heffernan participates actively in social media.
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Virginia Heffernan openly befriends her readers on Facebook, tweets frequently, and maintains an active Tumblr account.
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Virginia Heffernan received criticism from right-wing pundits like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.
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From October 2018, Virginia Heffernan was the host of Slate's Trumpcast podcast.
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In 2005, Virginia Heffernan published The Underminer, a comic novel she co-wrote with Mike Albo.
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Virginia Heffernan scripted Matthew's Murder, an Emmy award-nominated, MTV documentary on the murder of Matthew Shepard.
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Virginia Heffernan has been online since the age of ten, when she used a Zenith computer terminal and dial-up modem at home to play a MUD at Dartmouth College.