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James Poniewozik

American journalist and television critic (born 1968)

American journalist and television critic (born 1968)

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  • Journalist
  • television critic}} James Poniewozik (; born July 12, 1968) is an American journalist and television critic. He is the chief TV critic for The New York Times. Earlier in his career, he wrote Time's Tuned In column for 16 years.

Early life

Originally from Monroe, Michigan, Poniewozik's father was Catholic and of Polish descent. His mother was Jewish from a Sephardi background from Morocco. Poniewozik attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1990 with a BA in English. He subsequently attended but did not complete the graduate program in fiction writing at New York University.

Career

Poniewozik has contributed to publications such as The New York Times Book Review, Fortune, and Rolling Stone. From 1997 to 1999, he was the media critic and editor of the media section at Salon.

Poniewozik was Time magazine's television critic from 1999 to 2015. In 2005, he began writing Times first blog, Tuned In, a commentary on television and related media. His work at Time has been called "one of the most prominent voices analyzing the modern TV revolution today." In August 2015, it was announced that he would join The New York Timess culture desk as chief television critic.

Liveright published his book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America in September 2019.

Personal life

Poniewozik lives in Brooklyn. He attended church as a child, and became an atheist as a teenager; he has since described himself as "culturally Jewish".

References

References

  1. "James Poniewozik Joins The New York Times As Chief TV Critic". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (2015-08-10). "James Poniewozik Joins The New York Times As Chief TV Critic".
  3. Hinds, Julie. "Cable TV, Donald Trump's presidency unquestionably tied together: Author explains how".
  4. Poniewozik, James. (2008-09-30). "Jews Control the Media Criticism".
  5. Urie, Andrew. (2022-07-26). "James Poniewozik, Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America". European Journal of American Studies.
  6. "James Poniewozik Author Page".
  7. Poniewozik, James. (2019-09-10). "Audience of One: Donald Trump, television, and the politics of illusion". Liveright Publishing Co..
  8. "James Poniewozik on [Audience of One] {{!}} C-SPAN.org".
  9. (August 31, 2009). "Robo-James' Time Machine: How TV Taught Me to Be Jewish".
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