Hi there. My name is Jonathan. I’m a writer, editor, and producer based in New York City. I’m currently a senior editor at The Infatuation. In past lives, I worked as a cities manager and senior editor at Eater, was the editor-in-chief of VICE, the managing editor of Mic, and the U.S. editor of Huck magazine. My writing has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, New York, Interview, the Outline, and elsewhere.
I am a proven digital media leader with experience in strategy, editorial, production, and marketing. My track record includes building a large-scale, award-winning global media operation, mentoring staffers into the next stages of their careers, and leading educational workshops around the world. I am passionate about my work, and believe deeply in the power of a well-told story.
Here’s some stuff I’ve done.
Golden State Burritos
A collaborative effort between Eaters LA, SF, and SD to explore the state’s most exciting burritos.
Voices of School Shooting Survivors
One month after the Parkland shooting, I commissioned a series of essays from 15 current and former students and teachers who had survived a school shooting. The writers spoke candidly about their experiences and opinions on gun control, providing valuable perspective to the national conversation. Excerpts from the series were animated and turned into short videos.
Why I Didn’t Vote
Ahead of the 2018 midterms, I commissioned this collection of essays from people who, despite their best efforts, were unable to vote in previous elections due to structural barriers instituted by the state.
The Evolving Face of Hate
Before the recent deplatforming initiatives by various social media companies, I assigned this package exploring the intersection of culture and far-right politics, and how the internet fuels radicalism. The Evolving Face of Hate peeled back the curtain to expose the mechanisms propping up and disseminating hate, as well as the “culture” that exists within those movements. It was a particularly timely series published just as the public first grappled with how toxic ideologies spread so rapidly and unchecked across the internet and beyond.
The VICE Mass Shooting Tracker
Over the course of 2016, VICE tracked every mass shooting in the United States and Europe. We updated the tally daily, and, each Friday, published a roundup of the week’s incidents. We occasionally went deep on individual shootings for a spinoff franchise called Anatomy of an Ordinary Mass Shooting, in which we illuminated a particular event that would otherwise have been a blip on the local news radar.
Select production work
… On Acid!
I produced a number of documentaries in which the host was under the influence of LSD. Highlights included the Westminster Dog Show (which invited us back the next year!) and a monster truck rally.
Let Lee Explain
I produced this biweekly video series in which we took complex topics and explained them in straightforward, easily digestible videos.
Some writing
William Strobeck Is Supreme’s Skate Video Auteur
Good-bye to the Green Mesh Trash Can
Alex G on Fireworks, Faith, and Horror Movies
Jonah Hill Made a Skate Film That Doesn’t Suck
A New Book Explores Why Skateboarders Were At the Forefront of Tattooing
The Podcast Documenting Skateboarding’s History in Real Time
A Day in the Life of a Contact Tracer
Harmony Korine Just Wants to be Left Alone
The Lethality of “Non-Lethal” Weapons
America’s Urban Bathing Renaissance
What Getting an Abortion Was Like Before Roe
Why Do We Insist on Eating Next to Our Poop-Covered Phones?
The Activists Getting Skateboarders to Vote
Almost 25 Years Later, Supreme Is Still a Skate Shop