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Smith becomes contributing writer at NY Times Magazine

Danyel Smith

Danyel Smith has joined The New York Times as a contributing writer. Previously, she was a media executive at ESPN.

Smith was also an editor at Billboard and served as chief content officer of Vibe Media Group and editor in chief of Vibe and Vibe.com. She was part of the adjunct faculty at The New School.

From 1992 to 1994, she worked as a pop music critic at The New York Times, and from 1999 to 2001, she served as editor at large at Time Inc.

She has also appeared as an expert on ABC, ESPN, BBC, CNN, CBS and NPR.

She authored the acclaimed “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop” (Penguin Random House, 2022). She is also the creator/host of the NAACP Image Award-nominated Black Girl Songbook, a Spotify Original podcast that centers the sounds and stories of Black women in music.

Smith graduated from the University of California-Berkeley.

Be sure to congratulate Smith on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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