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Starlee Kine teamed up with cartoonist Arthur Jones to create Post-it Note Stories, a traveling reading series in which illustrated Post-its tell fanciful stories. Currently, Kine, who has also worked as a producer on This American Life, is writing a book

Ezra Klein is a former print journalist who found his niche as a blogger for The Washington Post, where he writes about everything from political policy and health care to food. Klein has used this platform to launch a career as one of the most hotly hunted

Amy Phillips yearned to be a music writer since 8th grade and bootstrapped her way to becoming the editor of Pitchfork Media by snagging their attention with her music blog, More in the Monitor. Now she holds the power to raise bands to indie stardom or to

Laura Secor has no problem getting tangled up in Iranian affairs—the accomplished journalist covers everything from the elections to sexual politics for publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. And with a book on Iran in the

Dr. Deborah Berebichez, better known as The Science Babe, is a Wall Street risk analyst with a Ph.D. in physics who guides the less scientifically inclined in their quest to understand the mechanics of their workaday lives. On her Web series, The Science of

Tracy Van Slyke went from the publisher of In These Times magazine to warrior for alternative media as the program director of The Media Consortium, a coalition of independent journalism outlets working to help indie publications amplify their progressive

Sarah Waiser, the art director of Tokion, creates spreads that juxtapose street culture and high fashion, providing a visual context for editorial that features artists both established and new. Waiser started as an intern at Tokion and worked her way up to

Ray Wert is the editor-in-chief of Jalopnik, a Gawker Media site that attempts to make car culture accessible to more than just gear-heads. Wert gave the site a tune-up that saw it go from just a few thousand visitors a month to well over two million in

Josh Zepps formerly tackled scientific conundrums as the host of Brink, a show about great minds on the verge of monumental discoveries. Now he’s giving his own mind a rest as the face of Style Series, a celebrity interview show that airs on the Times Square

Jesse Brown co-founded Bitstrips—a site that lets users write their own comic strips. The easy-to-use Web site allows Internet lurkers to build characters from scratch, share their creations with the entire Bitstrips community, and, for better of worse, live