Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan On The Neurotoxin Happy Moms Avoid

Yahoo! News | Posted 05.17.2012

This is a health bulletin. A sober, alarmist one. Aimed squarely at moms who feel guilty about their choices. There is a neurotoxin that every moth...

Yahoo News' Major Get

politico.com | DYLAN BYERS | | Posted 04.03.2012

In its most high-profile move since announcing the expansion of its political coverage, Yahoo News has hired former New York Times columnist Virginia ...

Why Cultural Literacy Is Dying

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.15.2011

Marshall Fine

Critics are cultural historians of a sort, trying to tie the present to the past. Audiences, however, apparently don't give a rip. Or, at least, the audience that seem to matter most now, people in their 30s or younger.

NYT Gets New Op-Ed Writer

adweek.com | Posted 05.31.2011

Virginia Heffernan, formerly a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, has found a new home at the paper. Starting Monday, she will "write regularl...

Finding a Social Compact for the Blogosphere: NYT's "The Medium" on ScienceBlogs Dust-Up

George Spyros | Posted 05.25.2011

George Spyros

Writing with accountability and reading with a sense of responsibility on the Web would form a compact between author and reader, providing a strong "formula" upon which to base our mutually constructed and shared social state.

Facebook, Twitter and the Social Web: Sharing But Not Caring

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Rob Fishman

Simpler privacy settings on Facebook, filters on Twitter and the so-called suburbanization of the web might make us more open and social. Or they might make us more closed.