Ana Marie Cox

Infobox Person
name = Ana Marie Cox

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caption = Ana Marie Cox (right), with Jimmy Wales, May 08, 2007
birth_date = Birth date and age|1972|9|23
birth_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico
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nationality = American
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known_for = The political blog Wonkette
education = University of Chicago
employer = Congressional Quarterly
Time magazine
Radar
occupation = Editor
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spouse = Chris Lehmann

Ana Marie Cox (born September 23 1972) is an American author and blogger who is the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette and is widely considered synonymous with the title. She is currently the Washington editor of Radar.cite web | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08cox.html | title=Divided She Fell |]

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", cite book | last=Cox | first=Ana Marie | authorlink=Ana Marie Cox | title=Dog Days | year=2006 | publisher=Riverhead Books | location=New York City | isbn=9781594489013 | oclc=61758736 | id=LCCN|2005|0|54652 ] 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. [cite web | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301935.html | title=Wonkette's Sex Change | accessdate=2008-04-17| date=2006-01-04 | publisher="The Washington Post" ]

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."cite web | url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1609447,00.html | title=An Imus Guest Says No More | accessdate=2007-10-18 | last=Cox | first=Ana Marie | authorlink=Ana Marie Cox | date=2007-04-12 | publisher="The New York Times" ]

On March 4, 2008, Cox declared that she was less a reporter and "supposed to be writing the more feature-y, bloggy, scene-driven stuff."cite web | url=http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/03/okay_okay_okay_the_mccain_bbq.html#comment-456497 | title=Okay, Okay, Okay: The McCain BBQ | accessdate=2008-03-04 | last=Cox | first=Ana Marie | authorlink=Ana Marie Cox | date=2008-03-04 | publisher="Time.com" ]

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.cite web | url=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/10/144159/249 | title=Ana Marie Cox No Longer With time.com |]

External links

* [http://www.wonkette.com Wonkette]
* [http://www.wonkette.com/politics/announcements/letter-from-ana-blog-days-146819.php Cox's "Wonkette" post announcing her "ascension to Wonkette Emeritus"]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301935.html Washington Post's article on Cox's retirement from Wonkette]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/books/03masl.html?8hpib NYTimes.com Review of Dog Days]
* [http://spj.jrn.columbia.edu/wonkette.html Wonkette In The Flesh: An Evening with Ana Marie Cox] transcript of interview at Columbia Journalism School, October 2004
* [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail479.html South by Southwest Interactive] audio interview, March 2005
* [http://time-blog.com/swampland Swampland blog] on Time.com
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Cox,%20Ana%20Marie List of video conversations and debates] with various different people on Bloggingheads.tv

References

Persondata
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 =