Ana Marie Cox

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Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox (right), with Jimmy Wales, May 08, 2007
Born	September 23, 1972 (1972-09-23) (age 35) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Nationality	American
Education	University of Chicago
Occupation	Editor
Employer	Congressional Quarterly Time magazine Radar
Known for	The political blog Wonkette
Spouse(s)	Chris Lehmann

Ana Marie Cox (born September 23, 1972) is an American author and blogger who was the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette and is widely considered synonymous with the title. She is currently the Washington editor of Radar^[1].

[edit] Biography

Cox was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She attended high school at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she wrote for the school's newspaper, The Clarion. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1994.

Cox is the former executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name "Ann O'Tate." Prior to joining the Suck team, she was an editor of the progressive online magazine, Bad Subjects. She is married to Chris Lehmann, formerly of The Washington Post and New York and now an editor at Congressional Quarterly, and lives in Washington, D.C..

Immediately prior to beginning at Wonkette, Cox worked at AOL CityGuide at the Dulles, Va. headquarters.

Under her tenure, Wonkette, published by weblog group Gawker Media since October 2003, was a sportive commentary on Capitol Hill Washington Politics —as well as more serious matters of politics and policy. Cox and Wonkette gained notoriety in the political world for publicizing the story of Jessica Cutler, also known as "Washingtonienne", a staff assistant to Senator Mike DeWine (R.-Ohio), who accepted money from a Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors. On January 5, 2006, she officially announced her retirement as the blog's editor and her imminent transition to "Wonkette Emeritas".

Her novel Dog Days,^[2] a satire of Washington D.C. life for which she was reportedly paid $250,000, was published on January 6, 2006. July 27, 2006 she was named the Washington editor of Time.com, where she also writes "The Ana Log". She is also under a mid-six-figures contract with Penguin to write a nonfiction book.^[3]

On April 12, 2007, Cox claimed on Time's website that she agreed to appear on Don Imus's radio show, despite his history of racist and sexist comments, because she wanted to be considered part of the media elite. Cox wrote: "I'm embarrassed to admit that it took Imus' saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge."^[4]

On March 4, 2008, Cox admitted that she was less a reporter and "supposed to be writing the more feature-y, bloggy, scene-driven stuff."^[5]

It has been reported that Ana Marie Cox is no longer a staffer on time.com but will stay on the website as a contributor.^[6]

[edit] External links

• Wonkette
• Cox's Wonkette post announcing her "ascension to Wonkette Emeritus"
• Washington Post's article on Cox's retirement from Wonkette
• NYTimes.com Review of Dog Days
• Wonkette In The Flesh: An Evening with Ana Marie Cox transcript of interview at Columbia Journalism School, October 2004
• South by Southwest Interactive audio interview, March 2005
• Swampland blog on Time.com

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NAME	Cox, Ana Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wonkette
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Political author, editor, columnist, and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Juan, Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH