Jessica Bennett

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Freelance journalist + editor for Sheryl Sandberg's @LeanInorg. Formerly: Exec Editor @TUMBLR, Senior Editor @NEWSWEEK. Women, culture, the internet.

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“We promise not to screw it up.” - Marissa Mayer, on the @Tumblr acquisition, as announced via Yahoo's Tumblr tmblr.co/ZjDNZylQHeOF

"We promise not to screw it up."

tumblr.com — We promise not to screw it up.-- Marissa Mayer, on the Tumblr acquisition as announced via press release on Yahoo's Tumblr. Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!
Photo: astronautwivesclub: More English model Jean Shrimpton in Harper’s Bazaar Space Age fashion, April... tmblr.co/ZjDNZylJOiw1

astronautwivesclub: More English model Jean...

tumblr.com — astronautwivesclub: More English model Jean Shrimpton in Harper's Bazaar Space Age fashion, April 1965, by Richard Avedon
Haunting Relic of History, Slave Cabin Gets a Museum Home in Washington, via @nytimes nyti.ms/113qqh8

Slave Cabin to Get Museum Home in Washington

nytimes.com — EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. - The floors creaked. The walls swayed in a strong breeze. Rot and termites had destroyed parts of the rickety structure built before the Civil War. But when curators from the Smithsonian's new African-American history museum in Washington visited this marshy island last year, they found exactly what they were looking for: an antebellum slave cabin that captured the stark life of plantation workers before emancipation.

The Mindy Project Is Subversive & Sexy

medium.com — When I rave to friends about The Mindy Project, at first it's about how funny it is, how delightful the characters are, the sly inversion of rom-com tropes, the fetching Peter Pan collars. Creator and star Mindy Kaling is the glimmering, shiny-haired jewel at the center of it all, but The Mindy Project is a true ensemble comedy.
Killed @Tumblr Storyboard wins not 1 but 2 @NYPressClub awards. Cc @skydylanrobbins @chrismohney. Lean the fuck into that!! #LTFI

LeanInOrg: It's never too early to #leanin ...

twitter.com — It's never too early to #leanin - Happy Mother's Day! pic.twitter.com/StD1pYyqQl
RT @BadAstronomer: This has to be seen to be believed: @Cmdr_Hadfield sings David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”…FROM SPACE. And it’s *good*. http:…

Astronaut Chris Hadfield sings David Bowie's Space Oddity in space

slate.com — Chris Hadfield-astronaut, and commander of Expedition 35 on the International Space Station-is full of surprises. He's been tweeting amazing pictures from space for months, and has even sung a duet with a musician on the ground. Still, this I did not expect: A full-blown music video of him singing and...
Women, Sexism & Media: A Discussion w @LynnPovich, @Newsweek's 1st female sr editor, & me. Thurs @princetonclubny. bit.ly/11wJc7S
This is epic. Rt @nakisnakis: Leno Skit Turns Unexpectedly Amazing Thanks to Incredible Couple gawker.com/lame-leno-skit…

Lame Leno Skit Turns Unexpectedly Amazing Thanks to Incredible Couple

gawker.com — The setup for the Tonight Show segment "Pumpcast News" is dirt simple: Tim Stack of Parker Lewis Can't Lose fame plays a fictional news anchor for a fictional news station called Pumpcast News which only airs on gas station pumps.
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