Emily Nussbaum

Emily Nussbaum (born 1966) is a Pulitzer Prize winning television critic for The New Yorker.

Early life

Nussbaum was born in the United States to mother Toby Nussbaum (née Sheinfeld) and Bernard "Bernie" Nussbaum, who served as White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Nussbaum graduated from Oberlin College in 1988. She went on to get a master's degree in poetry from New York University and started a doctoral program in literature, but decided not to pursue teaching.

Career

After living in Providence, Rhode Island, and Atlanta, Georgia, Nussbaum started her early career writing reviews of TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and posting at the website Television Without Pity. She began writing for Lingua Franca and served as Editor-in-Chief of Nerve. She also wrote for Slate and The New York Times.

Nussbaum then worked at New York magazine, where she was the creator of the Approval Matrix and wrote about culture and television. She was at New York for seven years and was the Culture Editor.

In 2011, she became the TV critic at The New Yorker, taking over from Nancy Franklin.

Personal life

Nussbaum is married to journalist Clive Thompson. They have two children.

Awards

• 2014: National Magazine Awards, Columns and Commentary. Honors political and social commentary; news analysis; and reviews and criticism
• 2016: Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

• Holt, Sid; McCarthy, Margaret; Lowe, Jonathan (1 May 2014). "National Magazine Awards 2014 Winners Announced". MPA - the Association of Magazine Media. Retrieved 19 April 2016. 
• "The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism. For distinguished criticism, using any available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker". Pulitzer Prize. 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.