Everything about Ana Marie Cox totally explained
Ana Marie Cox (born
September 23 1972) is an
American author and
blogger who was the founding editor of the political blog
Wonkette and is widely considered synonymous with the title.
Biography
Cox was born in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. She attended high school at
Lincoln Southeast High School in
Lincoln, Nebraska, where she wrote for the school's newspaper,
The Clarion. She graduated from the
University of Chicago in 1994.
Cox is the former executive editor of
Suck.com, where she wrote under the
pen name "Ann O'Tate." Prior to joining the Suck team, she was an editor of the progressive online magazine,
Bad Subjects. She is married to
Chris Lehmann, formerly of
The Washington Post and
New York and now an editor at
Congressional Quarterly, and lives in
Washington, D.C..
Under her tenure, Wonkette, published by weblog group
Gawker Media since October 2003, was a sportive commentary on
Capitol Hill Washington Politics —as well as more serious matters of politics and policy. Cox and Wonkette gained notoriety in the political world for publicizing the story of
Jessica Cutler, also known as "Washingtonienne", a staff assistant to
Senator Mike DeWine (
R.-
Ohio), who accepted money from a
Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors. On
January 5 2006, she officially announced her retirement as the blog's editor and her imminent transition to "Wonkette Emeritas".
Her novel
Dog Days, a satire of
Washington D.C. life for which she was reportedly paid
$250,000, was published on
January 6,
2006.
July 27 2006 she was named the Washington editor of Time.com, where she also writes "The Ana Log". She is also under a mid-six-figures contract with Penguin to write a nonfiction book.
On
April 12,
2007, Cox claimed on
Time's website that she agreed to appear on
Don Imus's radio show, despite his history of racist and sexist comments, because she wanted to be considered part of the media elite. Cox wrote: "I'm embarrassed to admit that it took Imus' saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge."
On
March 4,
2008, Cox admitted that she was less a reporter and "supposed to be writing the more feature-y, bloggy, scene-driven stuff."
It has been reported that Ana Marie Cox is no longer a staffer on time.com but will stay on the website as a contributor.
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