edie olmsted

done with my masters thesis, thank god I can finally stop caring about comedy!

THANK YOU to everyone who has read my article about the protesters getting arrested at northeastern! i barely use this account, so if you would like to keep up with my writing please follow @edieocre !!

the newest video I worked on is up on real life lore! check it out youtu.be/1S3PhfNHclU

To see what “universal school choice” really means, families in the states that have passed or are preparing to pass these laws can look to Arizona for a glimpse into the future. They might not like what they see. bit.ly/3Mi5Z2a

I worked on this video that was released today! youtube.com/watch?v=5-O8Da…

I have been an arts critic for a long time

I desperately needed to follow up on this review where I called selin a "chaotic and sexless villain" edieocre.substack.com/p/batumans-con…

new substack review of "either/or" by elif batuman edieocre.substack.com/p/batumans-aes…

some cartoons about ~writing~

anyway it’s my birthday read my profile of joel kim booster vulture.com/article/joel-k…

Journalism's incoming generation is often left out of discourse about how @Twitter affects our industry. For @TeenVogue, I reported on how Twitter arms younger journalists with institutional knowledge and increases transparency through accessibility. teenvogue.com/story/young-jo…

Commentators have called the Great Resignation a “delusion,” driven by Gen-Z narcissists who don’t know how good they have it. But quitting can be an act of conscious sacrifice, a rejection of the soul-deadening modern workplace. thebaffler.com/latest/conscio…

here is an incredibly absurd story I wrote and produced at @columbiajourn about an enigmatic comedian, a fateful cup of spit, and an alternate reality called Car World ... soundcloud.com/user-601309176…

really proud of the work I did on this site with my classmate emily russell! crucially, she put the whole thing together, but I did the little staff drawings truestoriesinsound.org

This week, I graduated with a Masters from the Columbia Journalism School! It was nine months of strange, hilarious phone interviews, late nights writing, and rewarding, eye-opening edit sessions with incredible peers and friends. Thank you to everyone who helped me on my way!

I was incredibly honored to win the Peter Keller Editing Award at this @columbiajourn ceremony! I am really grateful to my professors who nominated me, @DanielGAlarcon and @leenasanzgiri for their encouragement and support during our audio production seminar this semester!!

been having a strange few days so I wrote up some thoughts edieocre.substack.com/p/meditations-…

update: there are now 0 trans journalists working at @SDPBNews I would absolutely love to share more 🧵