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Catherine Townsend

  • Freelance Writer and Host, Hell and Gone Podcast, Freelance
Los Angeles, New York
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Covers:  online dating, plastic surgery, social media, dating, cybercrime, interviews, investigative, culture, pop culture, relationships, trends
Writer. PI. Host of true crime podcasts Hell and Gone @iheartmedia and Blood Money. I investigate white collar fraud, money, power...and murder.

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Author of Sleeping Around and Breaking the Rules. Dating columnist, author and private investigator-in-training. I began my career writing for Fashion Wire Daily, and spent several years as a staff writer at New York magazine. My job allowed me access to everyone from Playboy bunnies to heads of state, and I found myself interviewing Ozzy Osbourne on a leopard-print bed at Sundance, flying to LA for the Vanity Fair Oscar party and ambushing Tony Blair over cocktails. But my wildest stories happ…

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Goodbye Sugar Daddy; Hello 'Splenda Daddy'

Goodbye Sugar Daddy; Hello 'Splenda Daddy'

Why men who fund their younger girlfriends' lifestyles are making LESS money than ever

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Facebook Graph allows us to search nearby singles and could change internet dating forever... But...

Facebook Graph allows us to search nearby singles and could change internet dating forever... But...

Forget pre-Googling a first date: Facebook's new Graph Search takes online stalking to a whole new level. The…

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Should ambitious women marry older men? As Xerox CEO Ursula Burns credits her success to a 20-yea...

Should ambitious women marry older men? As Xerox CEO Ursula Burns credits her success to a 20-yea...

According to Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, the reverse is also true. In fact, she says the 'secret' of her success …

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Forget the seven-year itch: From Ryan Seacrest to Justin Bieber, A-list break-ups indicate that t...

Forget the seven-year itch: From Ryan Seacrest to Justin Bieber, A-list break-ups indicate that t...

First it was the seven-year itch. Then the three-year itch. Now a rash of recent celebrity break-ups seems to…

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Human meat recipes, asphyxiation fan groups and WOMEN who post self-mutilation pictures: My glimp...

Human meat recipes, asphyxiation fan groups and WOMEN who post self-mutilation pictures: My glimp...

NYPD Cannibal Cop: A female perspective When her man began acting distant, Kathleen Mangan-Valle did what c…

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Gang violence, nuclear waste and metal detectors at school: Growing up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Gang violence, nuclear waste and metal detectors at school: Growing up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

When people ask me where I grew up, I have a throwaway joke: 'Pine Bluff, Arkansas-a town so rough that our p…

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The state of design review: a conversation with Australia's government architects

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By Tim Horton, Abbie Galvin, Catherine Townsend, Emma Williamson
| Taylor & Francis Online
The fields of architecture and planning face growing pressure to address increasingly complex and interconnected challenges, ranging from reducing carbon emissions and building climate resilience to the meaningful recognition of Country and improving housing affordability. Over the past 15 years design review programs adopted across nearly every state and territory in Australia have responded to these and other issues, leading to a variety of modes and experiences of design review.
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Patriotism is Participation

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By Diana Samarasan, Catherine Townsend
| Proximate Verified
What images resonate with America “of the people, by the people, for the people?” Watching the summer Olympics in Paris, we see models of outstanding individual achievement in athletes such as Noah Lyles and Katie Ladecki. At the same time, we're reminded in speeches, commercials and across the media that these athletes are part of a team, and are stronger as a result. This tension between team and individual is ever-present in our culture.
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Breaking the stigma: embracing disability in human rights defense

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By Catherine Townsend, Claudia Cahalane Verified
| Alliance Magazine Verified
After a world war with devastating consequences and loss of human life seventy-five years ago, governments declared that human rights belong to everyone. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) affirmed hope and humanity, and underscored the universality of rights by mentioning ‘everyone’ 30 times. It grounded a more expansive human rights system that now includes migrants, indigenous peoples, and persons with disabilities – at least on paper.
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