Irin Carmon | |
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| Born | 1983 or 1984 (age 41–42) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | political commentator,television personality,journalist |
Irin Carmon (English:/ɪˈrɪnkɑːrˈmoʊn/)[1] born 1983/1984)[2] is anIsraeli-American[3]journalist andcommentator. She is a senior correspondent atNew York Magazine,[4] and aCNN contributor.[5] She is co-author ofNotorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Previously, she was a national reporter atMSNBC, covering women, politics, and culture for thewebsite and on air. She was a visiting fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice atYale Law School.[6]
In 2011, she was named one ofForbes' "30 under 30"[7] in media and featured inNew York Magazine as a face of young feminism.[8] She received the November 2011 Sidney award fromThe Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon.[9]Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014.[10]
Carmon is Jewish[11] and was born inIsrael, the granddaughter ofZionists who lived inPalestine duringWorld War II.[12] She grew up on Long Island.[13] She is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[14]
A graduate of Waldorf School of Garden City in 2001, Carmon attendedHarvard College and graduated in 2005 with an AB in Literature,magna cum laude.[15]
While at Harvard, Carmon wrote forThe Harvard Crimson[16] and theLet's Go series of travel guides.[17] Her senior thesis was titled, "Genealogies of Catastrophe:Yehuda Amichai’s Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan andRicardo Piglia'sRespiración artificial."[18]
Early in her career, Carmon wrote regularly for theBoston Globe,[19] theVillage Voice,[20] andThe Anniston Star.[13] She was a media reporter for the fashion-industry trade journalWomen's Wear Daily from 2006 to 2009.[21]
Carmon was aJezebel staff writer from 2009 to 2011.[22] She wrote a post callingThe Daily Show a "boys' club where women's contributions are often ignored and dismissed”, and opining that then-correspondentOlivia Munn was only hired on the show because of her status as asex symbol.[23] The women of theDaily Show responded with an open letter defending their workplace.[24] In response to criticism that she failed to provide adequate time for comment, Carmon posted three brief emails with oneDaily Show publicist, which occurred one week before the story was published.[25] Two years later, Carmon wrote a polemic against her critics.[26]
From 2011 to 2013, Carmon was a staff writer forSalon.[27] Her Salon coverage ofEden Foods drew attention to the organic food company's lawsuit against the contraception mandate of theAffordable Care Act.[28] Her piece was used in an Appeals Court ruling as evidence against Eden Foods' claim of a religious freedom motive.[29] In October 2012, she and Jezebel founderAnna Holmes started the trending #sorryfeminists hashtag that mocked negative stereotypes of feminists.[30]
In June 2013, Carmon was hired full-time byMSNBC.[31] She has written for MSNBC.com and contributed on the showsThe Reid Report,Melissa Harris-Perry, andAll In with Chris Hayes.[32]Mediaite named her in a four-way tie among the "Best TV Pundits" of 2014 for bringing "a comprehensive understanding to women's health and justice issues that goes beyond the usual talking points."[10] In January 2015, New York Magazine reported that Carmon would be co-authoring the biography[33]Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg withShana Knizhnik, the creator of the Notorious R.B.G. blog.[34] The book was released in October 2015[33] and debuted at #7 on theNew York TimesBest Seller list.[35] In February 2015, Carmon conducted an exclusive interview for MSNBC withRuth Bader Ginsburg forThe Rachel Maddow Show.[36]
In late 2017 and early 2018, Carmon teamed up with theWashington Post to break the news of sexual harassment and assault allegations againstCharlie Rose,[37] as well asCBS’s knowledge of his conduct.[38] That work won a 2018Mirror Award from theNewhouse School atSyracuse University.[39]
In July 2018, Carmon was hired by New York Magazine,[4] as a senior correspondent. In November 2018, she was hired by CNN as a contributor.[40]
Carmon, 35, is a Harvard grad and senior correspondent for New York magazine who covers gender, social justice, politics and the law.
I should disclose my bias as an Israeli-born Jew, whose European grandparents and great-grandparents were among the few in their families to survive Nazi genocide because they were Zionists in what was then known as Palestine.
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