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Tess Cagle is a reporter who focuses on politics, lifestyle, and streaming entertainment. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Texas Monthly, the Austin American-Statesman, Damn Joan, and Community Impact Newspaper. She’s also a portrait, events, and live music photographer in Central Texas.

Tess Cagle

Strangers await an AIDS test in Netflix PSA ‘Sometimes’

Eddie Strait is a member of the Austin Film Critic Association. His reviews focus primarily on streaming entertainment, with an emphasis on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other on-demand services.

Eddie Strait

Netflix finally made a high school comedy about the debate team

Ramon Ramirez was the managing editor and, formerly, the Dot&#8217;s news director, entertainment editor, and evening editor. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Grantland, Washington City Paper, Austin American-Statesman, and Austin Monitor.

Ramon Ramirez

Ronnie from ‘Jersey Shore’ splits with girlfriend after Instagram Live fight

Josh Katzowitz is a former staff writer at the Daily Dot specializing in YouTube and boxing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. A longtime sports writer, he&#8217;s covered the NFL for CBSSports.com and boxing for Forbes. His work has been noted twice in the Best American Sports Writing book series.

Josh Katzowitz

After livestreaming his own car crash, YouTuber posts hospital photo

Grace Speas is a news reporter, covering streaming entertainment, internet culture, and viral politics.

Grace Speas

Backstage with rap’s problem child, Bhad Bhabie

Audra Schroeder&#8217;s work has previously appeared in the Austin Chronicle, the Dallas Observer, NPR, ESPN, Bitch, and the Village Voice.

Audra Schroeder

Content Zone creator accused of inappropriate behavior

8 interesting facts about Baby Ariel, the queen of Musical.ly

Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. Her work has appeared at Vice, Vox, Truthout, Bitch Media, Kill Screen, Rolling Stone, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games.

Ana Valens

Tyra Sanchez is in hot water for allegedly threatening RuPaul's DragCon.

Drag queen Tyra Sanchez ominously threatens RuPaul’s DragCon

Chris Osterndorf is an entertainment reporter and movie critic based in Los Angeles. He holds a degree in cinema from Chicago’s DePaul University. His work has appeared on the Daily Dot, Mic, the Script Lab, Salon, the Week, xoJane, and more.

Chris Osterndorf

Don’t be fooled, Netflix’s ‘Dude’ is so much more than a stoner comedy

Christine Friar is a writer and editor in New York who focuses on streaming entertainment and internet culture. Her work has appeared in the Awl, the Fader, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Vogue, Elle, and more.

Christine Friar

The mystery of ‘Drag Race’ star Robbie Turner’s ‘fatal’ car crash

Kahron Spearman is a journalist, copywriter, and host of “Discovery with Kahron Spearman” on KAZI 88.7.

Kahron Spearman

High-concept French rom-com ‘I Am Not An Easy Man’ flips gender roles

Chris Tognotti is a news and current events writer based out of Berkeley, California, and a co-host of the podcast Now We Know. While he specializes in domestic politics and opinion writing, he’s also savvy on sports, video games, and film.

Chris Tognotti

Anthony Hopkins jams out to his own music in delightful Twitter video

Kris Seavers was the senior IRL editor and training director for the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in Central Texas publications, including Austin Monthly and San Antonio Magazine, and on NPR.

Kris Seavers

Someone made a PowerPoint trying to prove Jack Antonoff cheated on Lena Dunham with Lorde

Lil Xan is here to be happy and make music

YouTuber Reset faces jail time over toothpaste prank

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