About Joanna

Joanna Brenner is a media, news, research, and entertainment expert with extensive experience leading content and editorial strategies that drive growth and make digital platforms sing. She currently works with digital publishers on special projects, streamlining newsletters, and setting best practices to grow audiences across social media and video platforms.

 

She has led editorial and audience teams and strategies at several media organizations, including NBCUniversal, Peacock TV, Vanity Fair, and ProPublica. 

She also pitches freelance pieces about movies, TV, and life, and writes a newsletter for "millennials who had good grades and complicated emotions"—mostly thoughts on culture, journalism, people-pleasing, and the consequences of chronic oversharing.

 

She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from James Madison University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she also is a certified indoor cycling instructor.