Ashley Feinberg
| Ashley Feinberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dallas, Texas |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Trinity University |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist |
| 📆 Years active | 2011-present |
| 👔 Employer | HuffPost |
| 🏅 Awards | Forbes 30 Under 30 |
| 🌐 Website | twitter |
Ashley Feinberg is an American journalist, humorist and senior writer at HuffPost.
Education[edit]
Feinberg was born in Dallas, Texas.[1] She attended Trinity University and studied English and Communication, graduating in 2012.[2]
Career[edit]
Feinberg began her journalism career in 2011 as an intern at the San Antonio Current.[1] She joined Gizmodo in 2013 as an Editorial Assistant.
Feinberg drew attention with how-to story about the "creepiest things you can do on Facebook, such as tagging yourself in someone else’s engagement photo and requesting a relationship status."[1] She later was promoted as a staff writer at Gawker.[1] Discussing Gawker's closing in 2016, HuffPost cited Feinberg's work for the site among the reasons that "[i]f you care about free speech, then you should care about Gawker."[3]
In August 2015, Feinberg broke news of 19 Kids and Counting and conservative Christian activist Josh Duggar's use of Ashley Madison, an online dating service marketed to married people seeking extramarital affairs.[4] Duggar's paid accounts was exposed in a July 2015 hacking of the site.[4]
In March 2017, she discovered FBI director James Comey's secret Twitter and Instagram accounts,[5] which he confirmed later that year.[6] Comey had previously mentioned a secret account in an interview[7] and Feinberg connected the pseudonym "Reinhold Niebuhr", who was the subject of Comey's college thesis.[8]
In October 2017, Feinberg joined HuffPost.[1]
Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Matthew Kassel said, "Feinberg’s highly ironized persona gives her the air of a digital-era Andy Kaufman."[1] Feinberg's Gawker colleague John Cook described her as "sort of an anti-troll...She uses the weapons of the troll for the forces of good."[1]
Her interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was reported internationally,[9] with Dorsey and commentators saying that it made Dorsey "look bad".[10]
Feinberg was chosen for the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media list, which noted she is "known for uncovering secrets about public figures through digital sleuthing, having discovered Donald Trump Jr.’s hundreds of posts on an online hunting forum, Sebastian Gorka’s Amazon wishlist and James Comey’s once-private Twitter account" as well as Duggar’s Ashley Madison account.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Kassel, Matthew (2018-01-09). "Ashley Feinberg trolls for all the right reasons". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ Trotter, JK (2017-05-26). "A Scrapbook Of Our Ashley Feinberg Memories On Her Last Day Of School". Deadspin. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ Amatulli, Jenna (2016-08-18). "10 Stories That Made Gawker Infamous". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pai, Tanya (2015-05-27). "19 Kids and Counting's Josh Duggar admits to infidelity and porn addiction". Vox. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- ↑ Schwedel, Heather (2017-10-23). "James Comey's Six Tweets, Reviewed". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- ↑ Boorstein, Michelle (November 6, 2017). "Why did James Comey name his secret Twitter account 'Reinhold Niebuhr'? Here's what we know". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Comey confirms 'secret' Twitter account". BBC. 2017-10-24. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- ↑ Wolf, Z. Byron (October 24, 2017). "Comey confirms he's 'Reinhold Niebuhr' in the strangest way". CNN. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- ↑ Farzan, Antonia Noori (January 18, 2019). "Would calling for murder get Trump banned from Twitter? CEO Jack Dorsey won't say". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- ↑ Hamilton, Isobel Asher (18 January 2019). "Jack Dorsey says he doesn't care about 'looking bad' after a bizarre Huffington Post interview". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ↑ "Ashley Feinberg (28)". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
External links[edit]
- Feinberg discusses reporting on Josh Duggar's Ashley Madison account on MSNBC, August 24, 2015
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