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Rachel Hills
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Rachel Hills (25) is an Associate Editor with NewMatilda.com, Australia's premier independent news and analysis site. Her writing on gender, politics, media and technology has appeared in publications as diverse as the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly, Russh, YEN and Girlfriend.

Rachel has been at the forefront of a number of innovative independent media projects, including electionTracker.net, which sent four youth journalists on the campaign trail during the 2004 Australian Federal election, and Interface, a magazine anthology of new writing by Australia's next generation of public thinkers.

In 2006, she traveled around the United States interviewing female journalists from The New York Times, Cosmpolitan, The Nation and others .

Her website is www.rachelhills.net.

Blog Entries by Rachel Hills

In Defense of Teen Magazines

Posted August 21, 2007 | 03:51 PM (EST)

Of all the magazines, newspapers and websites I've written for as a freelance journalist over the past couple of years, nothing has elicited as much excitement as the work I do for the Australian teen magazine, Girlfriend.

My political pieces inspire the occasional friendly email or blasting on a...

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In MySpace, Everyone Can See You Preen

Posted August 13, 2007 | 03:41 PM (EST)

When I first started surfing the internet in 1997, on a painfully slow old PC in my high school library, anonymity was the name of the game.

My friends and I would talk to strangers in chat rooms, but we were always careful to obscure any pertinent details about ourselves...

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The Reality TV Insta-Success Lie

Posted August 6, 2007 | 08:49 PM (EST)

This week's New York magazine cover story looks at the post wrap-up lives of reality TV luminaries from shows like Project Runway and Top Chef.

Because these programs are based on genuine talent and translatable skills (unlike, say, Survivor or Big Brother), there's an expectation that they'll act...

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Hillary Clinton and Us Weekly Politics

Posted June 13, 2007 | 04:42 PM (EST)

Ask most people in Australia, where I live, who the number one contender for the Democratic presidential nomination is, and they'll likely answer 'Hillary Clinton.'

Such people clearly do not follow the US blogosphere.

If they did, they'd know that of all the prominent Democrats, Clinton is the...

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