Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan
Heffernan in 2016
Heffernan in 2016
BornVirginia Page Heffernan
(1969-08-08) August 8, 1969 (age 55)
Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, columnist
Education
GenreInternet
Pop culture
Media

Virginia Heffernan (born August 8, 1969) is an American journalist and cultural critic. Since 2015, she has been a political columnist at the Los Angeles Times and a cultural columnist at Wired. From 2003 to 2011, she worked as a staff writer for The New York Times, first as a television critic, then as a magazine columnist, and then as an opinion writer. She has also worked as a senior editor for Harper's Magazine, as a founding editor of Talk, and as a TV critic for Slate. Her 2016 book Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art argued that the Internet is a "massive and collective work of art", one that is a "work in progress",[1] and that the suggested deterioration of attention spans in response to it is a myth.

  1. ^ Magic and Loss, Simon and Schuster.