We’re thrilled to announced that Scaachi Koul is joining Slate as a senior staff writer for culture and human interest.
Koul is a writer and podcaster who previously worked as a culture writer for BuzzFeed News. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Hairpin, the Globe and Mail, and Jezebel, and she is the author of the book of essays One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Koul is the co-host of the popular podcast Scamfluencers, and she has appeared in a number of documentaries, including Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the five-part documentary series that details the toxic world behind ’90s and 2000s kids TV.
She has also been a terrific Slate contributor across our site and podcasts writing about the short-lived presidential campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy and Law & Order’s identity crisis, and guest hosting for The Waves.
“I’m so excited that Scaachi is making Slate her home base for her essays, culture criticism, reported features, and more,” said Slate’s editorial director Jeffrey Bloomer. “We are thrilled to have her—she has a ton of great ideas and enthusiasm and is, at the very least, going to galaxy-brain our reality television coverage to a new level.”
Koul will mainly be writing for Slate but expect to hear her pop up on your favorite Slate podcast from time to time.
Koul’s first day will be June 3.
