Arts and Culture Journalists

I am the founder and editor in chief of TitelMedia. We operate Highsnobiety, one of the leading lifestyle platforms on the web today. With over 21 million unique visitors reached across all platforms, Highsnobiety sits among the most visited global sources for inspiration in the areas of fashion, sneakers, music, art and lifestyle culture. Innovation, progression and always being several steps ahead of the curve are just some of the core values of Highsnobiety.

Multimedia reporter for the @dailyecho in Southampton. Covering Arts, Education and LGBT stories.

I am a bilingual journalist, reporter, editor and creative based in New York City. In the past six years I have written and edited world news, art, culture and entertainment content for a variety of publications such as Teen Vogue, The Hollywood Reporter, ELLE Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, PROVOKR, Haute Living, Star Magazine, Radar Online and OK! Magazine.

Shelby Putnam Tupper is founder and creative director of Shelby Designs Inc., a small-but-mighty, full-service, customer-obsessed design consultancy. She graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut with a BS in biology and a minor in French. She did post-graduate work at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, where she received honors in the field of Medical & Scientific Illustration. She grew her entrepreneurial and design legs during her tenure at Harrison Design Group in San Francisco. Since its founding, Shelby Designs has received more than 100 local, national and international awards, has had their work published in books and top trade journals and exhibited in shows at The Palace of Fine Arts, The Masonic Auditorium and The SF Center for the Book. Outside the office, Shelby is a faceted artisan intoxicated by pre-1900s scientific illustration, engraving and typography. She also enjoys fiddling with her golden mean calipers and the number 1.618, and tinkers with computational graphics and Voronoi diagrams. She makes dimensional art from the pressroom’s recycled trimmings and fires up her torches to create jewelry from glass and steel. Shelby was born and raised in Oakland, where she lives with her husband, son and daughter, four cats, a gecko—and a tortoise named Darwin.

Kellie Hwang is the engagement reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. Before returning to the Bay Area, she held roles as transportation reporter and trending news reporter at the IndyStar in Indianapolis. Previously, Kellie covered dining news and trends, visual arts, events and nightlife for the Arizona Republic, and freelanced for the former Contra Costa Times. Kellie also serves as co-director of the Asian American Journalists Association Features Forum. She is a University of Washington graduate.

Writer, editor, consultant, producer, RECOUP podcast cohost/prod/composer. Strategy work in journalism, publishing, entertainment, the arts, and media content, including digital, mobile, and social. Experience includes NPR cultural producer/editor (radio to digital), New Yorker freelancer, NYT contributor, Inc. contrib editor, LA Times music reviewer, Slate regular, Travel + Leisure correspondent, etc. I maintain deep expertise in concert ("classical") music and arts criticism, although I love many other genres and like to challenge the ears. I'm a proud former Tower Records employee and professional concert violinist.

My work incorporates humor, balanced perspectives, thorough research and years of experience. Always a travel enthusiast, I've covered concerts and festivals throughout the United States and in Mexico, the Caribbean, England and Israel throughout the last decade. Areas of special interest include the intersection of musical culture with national and local drug policy, nontraditional addiction therapies and the effects of controlled substances on musical cognition. I've interviewed countless artists both legendary and up-and-coming, many of them as the host of the Insomniac video series Golf Cart Confessions.

Arts and culture reporter

Culture Reporter at The New York Times

Hannah Jane Parkinson is a Guardian columnist who writes on pop culture, music, tech, football, politics and mental health

Jennifer covers Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and Silicon Valley culture for CNBC.com in San Francisco. Formerly a reporter for the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Jennifer covered publicly-traded tech companies, their executives and workforce issues. Previously, she freelanced for FastCompany.com

I am a technology editor for CNN Business based in San Francisco, California. Since joining CNN as a reporter in 2012, I've covered all aspects of Silicon Valley and its impact on business, politics, families and relationships. As the San Francisco tech editor for CNN Business, I manage our Bay Area bureau and its team of ace reporters. I also write about the technology trends shaping our culture.

Luis Melgar is a graphics editor in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau. Before joining the Journal in 2020, he worked as a data journalist for the public media collaborative Guns & America, covering gun violence and gun culture. He has also previously worked at Univision.

Shana is a correspondent for Business Insider, where she covers career development and workplace culture.

I am a feature writer covering art, culture, food, travel and crime among other topics. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal Magazine, where I specialize in long profiles, for five years I reviewed restaurants weekly for Time Out New York. Trained as a chef—at the Culinary Institute of America—I was also the New York dining critic for Gourmet magazine (for which I received a James Beard nomination). My work has appeared in the New Yorker, Town & Country, Fortune, W, Saveur, Travel & Leisure and the New York Times among other publications. I hold a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and recently completed my first book, a ghostwriting project. The son of a US diplomat, I was raised in six countries on three continents. I am based in New York but travel frequently.

Annalisa is a reporter at Quartz. She hails from Bergamo (Italy) but has worked and lived in Paris and Delhi before settling in the US (for now). She was the founding editor of art, culture and lifestyle portal The India Tube and a writer and editor at Narratively, Global Voices, Timbuktu, Motherland, W+K Delhi, and Fabrica. She holds a master's degree in semiotics and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from the University of Bologna.

Freelance writer with 11+ years experience in magazine, Internet, newspaper, and copywriting - published nationally and internationally in print and online publications for music, entertainment, travel, culture, pets, and health related articles.

Over the years I've reported on pop music, video games, Disney, board games, graphic novels, films, television and craft beer. Essentially, I enjoy all-things pop-culture -- and craft beer.

Sonja Sharp covers the Westside for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the newsroom in 2019, she worked as an NYPD-credentialed member of the New York City press corps, writing stranger-than-fiction stories of crime and culture for VICE, the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, among others. She is a Bay Area native, a graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia, and a proud Jewish mother.

I’m a personal branding pioneer, motivational speaker, founder of Reach Personal Branding and cofounder of CareerBlast.TV. I'm also the bestselling author of the definitive books on executive branding: Ditch.Dare. Do! and Career Distinction. I'm passionate about how personal branding can inspire career-minded professionals to become indispensable, influential and incredibly happy at work—and I teach my clients (major global brands and 20% of the Fortune 100) to increase their success by infusing personal branding into their cultures. Here's a fun fact: I have the distinct privilege of having delivered more personal branding keynotes to more people, in more countries, than anyone on earth.