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Joan Summers

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As seen in: Eating For Free, PAPER Magazine, Apple Podcasts, MSN, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, El País, Aol, Flipboard, Yahoo Sports Canada, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle and
creator @e4fpod. sr. editor @papermagazine. opinions are my own.

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Joan Summers (she/her) is a writer, diva, and gossip about town. Summers is the creator and co-host of Eating for Free, a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it.

Her work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Jezebel, PAPER, InStyle, Gawker, Club Curran, and more.

Joan Summers’s Journalist Portfolio

Thierry Mugler Is Everywhere You Look

Thierry Mugler Is Everywhere You Look

The late Thierry Mugler's impact on the fashion industry - and beyond - cannot be overstated. From anime to '…

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The Depp/Heard Verdict Is Just the Beginning

The Depp/Heard Verdict Is Just the Beginning

After #MeToo, the backlash

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The Making of Ellen DeGeneres, the Nicest Person on Television

The Making of Ellen DeGeneres, the Nicest Person on Television

Ellen DeGeneres was supposed to host the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16, 2001. But in the wake of…

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Shea Couleé Breaks the Mold on 'MATERIAL'

Shea Couleé Breaks the Mold on 'MATERIAL'

Fresh off a historic run on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Couleé has already released her debut album 8 and …

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Articles

Nia Archives Is Lightning in a Bottle

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By Joan Summers 
| PAPER Magazine
This is PAPER Diaries, an unfiltered look into the thoughts and lives of creative people making it happen for themselves — in the real world, on the internet and in our wildest fantasies. Today, we're looking back at Lightning In a Bottle 2026 with British multi-hyphenate artist and producer Nia Archives, who trekked down to the desert to sing and dance and mystify the gathered masses with her signature sound. Her last album, Silence Is Loud, was just about our favorite album in 2024.
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Anatomy of a Torch Pass: Like Father, Like Son

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By Joan Summers 
| Flipboard
Anatomy of a Torch Pass: Like Father, Like Son Where have all the male pop stars gone? The internet certainly wonders. There are think pieces and Reddit debates all centered on the idea that we, as a music-consuming public, have spent this decade deprived of male pop stars. I’m not sure I buy that, though. The boundaries of who a pop star is, or …
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Keke Palmer Earned Her Crown

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By Joan Summers , Alton Anderson Founder-CEO-Editor
| Black News UK
Movies And TV Keke Palmer does not have the energy to give glass skin. But she can give cracked glass, she jokes, or stained glass on a cathedral, as I interject. “I live for stains. She's giving a stained window. Yes, honey, yes. That gives me life.”We’re catching up on the eve of the Met Gala, mere weeks before her next flick I Love Boosters, courtesy of Boots Riley, and on the heels of helping launch La Roche-Posay’s Mela B3 products.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My high school newspaper.

How is social media changing news?

It's made it worse, and better, but mostly worse.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To face things the way they are, and dream up ways they could be.

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