Scholarship and Biography

Josh Wolk is an editor, journalist, digital executive, and author with more than two decades’ experience in arts and entertainment journalism. After twelve years at Entertainment Weekly, where he began as EW.com’s first online writer and ended as senior editor of the TV department, he moved to New York Magazine in 2009 to revamp their culture site, Vulture. As its first Editorial Director, he grew Vulture from a small vertical of NYMag.com into a standalone destination, expanding its staff, widening its coverage, introducing original reporting, and developing new editorial approaches to better speak to the interests of the modern pop-culture fan. Vulture contributed to New York Magazine winning the National Magazine Award for best website in 2012 and 2014. After Vulture, he oversaw Yahoo’s four entertainment verticals as Executive Editor as part of the company’s “digital magazine” reinvention, and led Esquire’s 2016 election-season online reboot of the classic satire magazine, Spy.

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of the Practice of Journalism, Interdepartmental Program in Journalism, Brandeis University

Past Affiliations

Executive Editor, Yahoo (United States, Sunnyvale)

Senior Editor & Writer, Entertainment Weekly

Consulting Editor, Esquire Magazine (Hearst Communications)

Adjunct Professor, New York University (United States, New York) - NYU

Editorial Director, Vulture (New York Magazine)

Consulting Editor, Fast Company (Mansueto Ventures)

Consulting Editor, Gentlemen's Quarterly (Condé Nast)

Education

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
M.S.
Tufts University
B.A.