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Amanda Joan (AJ) McDougall

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As seen in: The Star-Ledger, Yahoo Singapore, E! News, The Daily Beast, VICE, Coconuts, Backstage, Columbia Daily Spectator, V Man, Vogue Singapore, Tahoe Quarterly
Covers:  Entertainment (theatre, television, film), pop culture, outdoor sports features
intrepid gal reporter @njdotcom @starledger // ex-@thedailybeast // six-foot semantic bear trap of bad taste // funky but chic

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AJ McDougall is a Singapore-born, Australian-American writer and researcher based in New York City. She is currently an undergraduate student there, studying both English Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, mainly because she idolizes Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, and Robin Green.

She writes mainly about winter sports and the entertainment industry, specializing in theatre and television. For her school papers, the Columbia Daily Spectator and the Federalist, she has written investigativ…

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Daniel Arthur Bell Identified as Suspect in 1972 Cold Case Murder of Gregory Dahl Nickell, Utah Cops Say

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By Amanda Joan (AJ) McDougall
| The Daily Beast Verified
A month after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, Greg Dahl Nickell took his sister’s college roommate out on a date. The pair drove to the top of a scenic overlook not far from Vernal, Utah, where a man walked up to their car and rapped on the window. The stranger told Nickell there’d been an accident, and he needed help. Then he pulled out a gun and shot the 21-year-old man three times. The gunman climbed into the car, shoving Nickell’s body onto the terrified student.
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Missing Truckee Teen Kiely Rodni’s Death Ruled an Accident by Nevada County Coroner Original

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By Amanda Joan (AJ) McDougall
| The Daily Beast Verified
Search crews looked for the 16-year-old for weeks before divers discovered her car, with her body inside, in a reservoir close to the campground from which she vanished. More than a month after the body of teenager Kiely Rodni was recovered from a California reservoir bordering the campground site of her disappearance, her death has been ruled an accident, according to an autopsy report released by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday.
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Nikki Finke, Must-Read Entertainment Journalist and Deadline Founder, Dies at 68

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By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling Verified, Amanda Joan (AJ) McDougall
| The Daily Beast Verified
Nikki Finke, the fearsome entertainment columnist whose uncompromising style and sharp-tongued scoops helped grow Deadline, the trade site she founded in 2006, into one of Hollywood’s most essential news sources, died Sunday morning. Unsurprisingly, Deadline first reported the news, adding that Finke had been battling a prolonged, unspecified illness. She was 68.
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