Q&A: Rookie Mag Editor, Anaheed Alani. Q&A: Rookie Mag Editor, Anaheed Alani ANAHEED ALANI is the editorial director and story editor at Rookie magazine, a monthly-themed site for teenage girls.
Previously, she was a fact-checker for The New York Times Magazine and an editor at the Chicago Reader. 1. What are the benefits and limitations to posting just three times daily? There are SO MANY benefits. Another benefit: Our posting schedule is designed to work with our readers’ schedules. Tavi Gevinson Celebrates Rookie Magazine's First Anniversary At The Ace Hotel (PHOTOS)
Tavi Gevinson and her fashionable cohort of teenage fans celebrated the one-year anniversary of Rookie Magazine, as well as the book release of "Rookie YearBook One," with a school dance-themed party at the Ace Hotel on Wednesday.
The glitter-packed fete mirrored much of Rookie's hallmark components with contributor readings and stylish young girls happily striking poses for the camera. Delicate little cupcakes and "Bitchface" vodka concoctions (reserved for the 21 and over crowd) were also on hand. The spotlight shined on a number of Rookie contributors reading from personal entries on stage, but Gevinson was undoubtedly the toast of the evening. Something Borrowed. An open-ended conversation about cultural appropriation.
Illustration by Suzy. All of us here at Rookie have been thinking and talking about cultural appropriation for a while now. In case you’re not familiar with the term, it’s when someone from one culture borrows something from another culture, changing or removing the meaning of that thing in the process. It can be obviously disgusting and overtly racist, like the old tradition of blackface, or more subtle and ambiguous, like a non-black person wearing doorknocker earrings. Or somewhere in between, like wearing a feather headdress in your music video. We’ve been trying to figure out a good way to address this topic on Rookie. The result is below.
ANAHEED: Hey, everyone. Why Can't I Be You: Emily Nussbaum. She has influenced so much of my TV watching and thinking, so it was a real honor to get to talk to her recently about how to get a sweet gig like hers—or not.
(Warning: She gave us the bad news first.) ANAHEED: So, the premise of “Why Can’t I Be You” is that we ask people with really cool jobs to explain how they got those jobs, so other people can try to follow the same path… EMILY NUSSBAUM: The thing is, I literally feel like I cannot give advice on how to get [my] job, because the obvious ways that the journalistic economy has collapsed and the role specifically for culture analysts within that make it very, very hard to make a living. The clear paths even for people who are already privileged are no longer there. I don’t want to BS people. The situation now is biased against newcomers. I mean, listen, I love my job. No, I like that. I was always interested in English and creative writing. What were you reading? I had every issue of Sassy. Tavi gevinson's blog: carnival.
Girlhood explained online. What must it be like growing up female now?
What must it feel like to be 14 today, growing up in a world where, rather than being limited to reading Judy Blume novels and More magazine's "position of the fortnight", slyly devoured in the WH Smith by the 260 bus stop, things like Rookie exist? Rookiemag.com is a site edited by Tavi Gevinson, the 15-year-old blogger who Lady Gaga called "the future of journalism", and, as per, she was right. They publish three times a day (after school, at dinnertime and before bed), things like "A guide to navigating the end of a friendship", "Literally the best thing ever: Glitter", and, my favourite, "How to look like you weren't just crying in less than five minutes".
Top 20 Books - Parenting Girls Survival Guide. Teens and Technology 2013. Smartphone adoption among American teens has increased substantially and mobile access to the internet is pervasive.
One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer. These are among the new findings from a nationally representative survey of 802 teens ages 12-17 and their parents which shows that: 78% of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of those own smartphones. That translates into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.One in four teens (23%) have a tablet computer, a level comparable to the general adult population.Nine in ten (93%) teens have a computer or have access to one at home. Seven in ten (71%) teens with home computer access say the laptop or desktop they use most often is one they share with other family members.
About the survey 78% of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of those own smartphones. Statistics.