About

I’m a journalist and social-media pro telling pocket-sized stories.

As the social media director at The New Yorker, I manage a team of five social pros: editors, writers, and video producers who package the magazine’s iconic reporting and storytelling into shorter, more tappable formats. My team’s work was nominated for ASME awards in 2020 and 2021. In a past life, I managed the Snapchat Discover channel at WIRED, where I oversaw a team that created and edited two Snapchat Discover editions per week. Buzzfeed’s Delia Cai, best known as Deez Links, let me talk about what it’s like to craft smart, tiny stories for an audience of curious teens in her newsletter. Like Rihanna, the WIRED Snapchat team won a Shorty Award in 2018.

I’ve also created stories for emerging platforms at Refinery29 and managed social accounts as a social-media editor at HuffPost. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international journalism from the University of Missouri. In my free time, I film the mold I’ve found in my fridge for a personal Instagram series called Mold Monday.

Got a social-media question or some wild mold pics? Hit me up on Twitter, Instagram, or at jabush11 at gmail dot com.