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Daniel Radosh | |
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| Born | (1969-03-23)March 23, 1969 (age 56) |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College |
| Occupations | Journalist, television writer |
| Years active | 1985–present |
Daniel Radosh (born 23 March 1969) is an American journalist andblogger. Radosh is a senior writer forThe Daily Show with Trevor Noah.[1] Previously, he was astaff writer forThe Daily Show withJon Stewart and a contributing editor atThe Week. He writes occasionally forThe New Yorker. His writing has also appeared inEntertainment Weekly,Esquire,GQ,Mademoiselle,McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,Might,New York Magazine,The New York Times,Playboy,Radar,Salon,Slate, and other publications. From 2000 to 2001, he was a senior editor forModern Humorist. In the 1990s he was a writer and editor atSpy. Radosh began his writing career atYouth Communication in 1985, where as a high school student he published more than a dozen stories inNew Youth Connections (nowYCteen), a magazine by and for New York City teenagers.[2]
His blog, Radosh.net, was named one of the "top 25 blogs" by Time.com in 2008.[3] As a blogger, he is probably best known for his public dispute with journalistPeter Landesman, who wrote an article aboutsexual slavery in the January 25, 2004, issue ofThe New York Times Magazine titled "The Girls Next Door". When Radosh challenged the facts of the article, Landesman threatened legal action against Radosh. A series of articles about the dispute byJack Shafer inSlate turned the issue of the article's accuracy — and of the legal rights and responsibilities of blogs — into one of the most controversial topics in journalism during the first half of 2004.[4]
Much of Radosh's journalism is on lighter topics, however: the description for his blog is "Pop. Politics. Sex. So On." In pop-culture circles, Radosh is known for his obsession with tracingHuckapoo's attempts to infiltrate popular consciousness. He also runs on his blog the New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest, a spoof ofThe New Yorker's weekly cartoon caption contest.[3]
His first book,Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, was published byScribner in 2008.[5]
Radosh is the son of historianRonald Radosh. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1987 and fromOberlin College in 1991,[6] and currently resides inBrooklyn,New York. He has three children. Radosh identifies as aHumanistic Jew.[7]
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