Ed Rampell
(He/Him)
Los Angeles
As seen in:
Flipboard,
Jacobin,
Truthdig,
The Progressive,
Portside,
The Free Press (CICJ),
CoverAction
Covers:
Cinema, theater, opera, books, travel, Indigenous issues, the climate crisis, human rights, politics.
Doesn't Cover:
Fashion, fluff, sports.
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Ed Rampell’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Ed Rampell is one of the American Left’s foremost cultural critics and interviewers. His specialty is the intersection of politics and the arts.
Rampell was born in New York City in the 1950s and named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. Rampell majored in Cinema at Manhattan’s Hunter College. After graduating, Rampell lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Micronesia, reporting for: the Australian Broadcasting Corp./Radio Australia, Radio New Zealand, ABC News’ “20/20,” AP, Reuters…
Ed Rampell’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Freelancer for a 1970s NYC film publication, story about Costa-Gavras - who many years later I interviewed for The Progressive Magazine.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes.
How is social media changing news?
In some way it democratizes mass communications but in other ways through algorithms, etc., and unleashing hate speech, it demeans discourse,