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| Born | (1968-07-12)July 12, 1968 (age 56) Monroe, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
James Poniewozik (/pɒnəˈwɒzɪk/; born July 12, 1968) is an American journalist and television critic. He is the chief TV critic forThe New York Times. Earlier in his career, he wroteTime'sTuned In column for 16 years.[1]
Originally fromMonroe, Michigan,[2][3] Poniewozik's father was Catholic, and of Polish descent. His mother was Jewish from aSephardi background from Morocco.[4] Poniewozik attended theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor,[3][5] graduating with a BA in English (1986–1990). He subsequently attended but did not complete the graduate program in fiction writing atNew York University.
Poniewozik has contributed to publications such asThe New York Times Book Review,Fortune, andRolling Stone. From 1997 to 1999, he was the media critic and editor of the media section atSalon.[6]
Poniewozik wasTime magazine's television critic from 1999 to 2015. In 2005, he began writingTime's first blog,Tuned In, a commentary on television and related media. His work atTime has been called "one of the most prominent voices analyzing the modern TV revolution today."[1] In August 2015, it was announced that he would joinThe New York Times' culture desk as chief television critic.[1]
Liveright published his book,Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, in September 2019.[7][8]
Poniewozik lives inBrooklyn. He attended church as a child, and became anatheist as a teenager; he has since described himself as "culturally Jewish".[9]
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