Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan writes a column about internet culture, “The Medium,” for The New York Times Magazine and keeps the Medium blog for the Times. Previously she spent four years as a television critic for The New York Times newspaper. Prior to that, she was the television critic for Slate, a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine and the articles editor at Talk. In 2005, she published a comic novel, The Underminer, which she wrote with Mike Albo. Her work has been widely anthologized. In 2002, she received a Ph.D. in English from Harvard.