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Buzzfeed

  • The Harsh Reality of Big Brother / Aug. 8, 2013
  • 8 Surprising Facts About ABC’s Whodunnit / July 21, 2013

The Atlantic / Wire

  • Not Their Whale War Anymore: How Animal Planet Was Forced to Step Down / Dec. 12, 2013

Slate

  • The Breakfast Table (with Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas) / April 23 to 26, 2001

Boldtype

  • Blindness by Jose Saramago / 10.04
  • A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham / 7.04
  • Raw Deal by Ken Smith / 5.04
  • Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy / 4.04
  • fiction: “Dinner” / 1999, third runner-up in Random House’s short story contest

PopPolitics

  • A Complex Fantasy [ABC’s Alias] / 1.22.02

Online Journalism Review

  • School pride online: College Newspapers on the Web / 11.19.99

Ironminds

  • Yeah, But Can She Cook? / 6.30.00
  • What’s Wrong With Carpetbagging? / 6.2.00
  • Vote Your Brain, Not Your Type / 5.19.00
  • Presidents Are People Too / 5.4.00
  • Clinton’s Digital Disconnect / 4.20.00
  • Same Old Charade / 2.25.00
  • Discrimination Is OK … When Votes Are at Stake / 2.11.00
  • Convoluted Caucuses and MTV / 1.28.00
  • Weighing the Polls / 1.14.00

The Slant

  • The Grass Ain’t Always Greener: Radio in Central Florida / 6.26.98
  • Give Kids the World (or at least $5000) [Sarah Maclachlan/ Barenaked Ladies concert review] / 12.24.97
  • Toward a more aesthetically pleasing world / 12.3.97
  • You people drive like crap! / 5.22.97
  • Comedy on the cutting edge / 5.18.97
  • Don’t be a Wallflower [review of Wallflower concert] / 5.7.97
  • The cult of Drew Garabo [an interview with the Real Radio 104.1 host] / 4.10.97

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Andy Dehnart, photographed by Kellie Warren, March 2019

Hi! I'm Andy, a writer and teacher who obsessively and critically covers reality TV and unscripted entertainment, focusing on how it’s made and what it means. Learn more about me.

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