Jennifer Merin
Jennifer Merin, author of the weekly Creators Syndicate column "Around the World With Jennifer Merin," is the former travel columnist for The Associated Press, and has been a travel columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday. She's a stringer CBS Radio and Westwood One Radio Networks, has been a newswriter for ABC Radio Network News and CNN, arts and entertainment reporter/critic for WMCA Radio and Soho News and a correspondent for numerous international magazines.
Jennifer has written about film for 20 years. She reviews films and interviews filmmakers for New York Press, a leading alt weekly newspaper. She's the film critic for Women's eNews, reports on film and cultural matters for Westwood One Radio Network's morning drive news magazine, "America In the Morning," and contributes to TheReeler.com. Jennifer's worked as newswriter/editor for ABC and CNN, and reporter for NBC. Her ongoing weekly column about culture and travel has resided in the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Tribune Media, Creators Syndicate and is currently distributed by ArcaMax publishing. Jennifer is president of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, a nonprofit association of women covering film and the movie industry. AWFJ presents the annual EDA Awards. Jennifer edits and publishes AWFJ Women On Film, the organization's syndicated journal.
Jennifer holds an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied and worked with many of today's leading filmmakers. She has taught at University of Wisconsin and University of Rhode Island, lectured worldwide for the U.S. State Department and conducted workshops in NYC correctional institutions.
