Karen Petersen
(She/Her)
Covers:
Politics. Arts and Culture. Travel-but with a twist, Graham Greene style.
Doesn't Cover:
Business. Sports. Government.
Citizen of the World/American Poet/ Vassar BA + Columbia Graduate School of Journalism MS. Winner of the Wil Mills Poetry Prize NOW ON Blue Sky as kushka53
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Karen Petersen’s Biography
Read Full Bio →After Vassar, Karen was one of only a few women nationally to be writing about jazz and salsa in the major metropolitan market of New York City, publishing in Latin NY magazine and the Soho Weekly News. A chance meeting with a combat photojournalist from Mexico at a NYC party led her to leave behind what was the endless sexism of the music business for the camaraderie of overseas journalism, and she became a combat photojournalist--only one of five women in the world at that time.. Duri…
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Been writing and published since I was 18 but the first big freelance piece was The NY Times in the early 80s called The Death of a Bookstore
Have you ever used a typewriter?
haha yes, I have my mother's Underwood from when she was a writer in the 1930s, in a case in the garage. I will never give it up
How is social media changing news?
REALLY? asked and answered during Obama '08