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Cord Jefferson
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Los Angelescordjefferson.tumblr.comJoined May 2010

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I'm very excited to be publishing my first piece of short fiction in the Yale Review next month. You can subscribe below.
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Our Spring 2022 issue arrives soon! Featuring a folio edited by Eula Biss on the dilemmas and anxieties of ownership. With work from @aminattaforna, @tiphanieyanique, @aishasabslo, and much more. Subscribe now: bit.ly/3B8Biob
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The "Station Eleven" episode I wrote is out today. Lucy Tcherniak directed it beautifully and the cast is great in it. If you've been put off by the idea of watching something about a pandemic, I promise you it's a show about more than that. Hope you like it.
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I appreciate being given room on this podcast to vent about how the tech bro ethos of "growth at all costs" and the worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries so I can stop wrecking dinner parties with my ranting.
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Get ready to hide under a napkin with a fried songbird while shouting “fuck off” in a thick Scottish accent, cuz it’s our @Succession ep w/@cordjefferson! We go deep on media, Hollywood and a creative economy increasingly governed by RoyCo-esque monoliths theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/succession-c
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Writers' Assistants and Script Coordinators are essential to the work of making TV and it's shameful that they're paid like this in an industry so full of money. They're negotiating with the for a living wage right now and I support them fully. #IALivingWage
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.@IATSE believes that no union member should make less than a living wage, but currently four 871 crafts' (Writers Assistants/Script Coordinators/APOCs/Art Dept. Coordinators) base rates FOR A 52 WEEK YEAR fall below the LA Dept. of Housing's low income threshold.
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I had a very small hand in this. It's a great, sad, confusing, nuanced story about how one man attempted to navigate racism in America. And in episode three you can hear me absolutely BUTCHER the Portuguese language.
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My new series is out today. Thank you @jamifloyd @KieseLaymon @imaniperry @mcknight3000 @cordjefferson and @JadAbumrad! Listen on @Radiolab. Happy 100th anniversary to black swan records🎼
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I hope if you submitted an application and didn't get the fellowship this time around that you'll not be discouraged. This industry needs new blood and that's not going to change overnight. Please keep writing and applying. I'll be rooting for you all from afar.
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We got nearly 750 incredible applications, so many that we decided to add a third fellow. I wish I had the resources to help everyone who was interested, but hopefully this is just the beginning of a program that will live a long and healthy life.
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Felt honored to chat with , whose work I really love. We talked about Gawker and our favorite show (Mad Men) and tech billionaires owning everything and why highlighting black people in my work is so important to me. Hope you enjoy it.
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Ignore my nervous, self-conscious laughter and just listen to all the smart things @cordjefferson has to say! twitter.com/voxdotcom/stat…
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Fellows will get $25,000 each and mentorship from a veteran writer as they work to complete an original TV pilot. At the end of six months, they'll then be guaranteed two meetings with agents/managers/development executives.
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It felt special for one of the greatest artists alive to actively avoid the spotlight in a media landscape that's increasingly reliant on endless self-promotion via as many channels as possible. RIP to MF Doom
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This was a nice conversation and even if you take nothing else from it please at least watch "A Face in the Crowd" immediately.
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This @cordjefferson interview has it all: streaming recs, meditations on pandemic pop culture, existential wrestling with success. read it all deezlinks.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with
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Very excited to keep making stuff with WB for years to come.
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‘Watchmen’ Writer Cord Jefferson Sets Overall Deal With Warner Bros. Television variety.com/2020/tv/news/w
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It was genuinely a dream come true to talk to Terry Gross on Fresh Air. I was grinning like a goon the entire time we spoke.
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The HBO series @watchmen combines sci-fi, superheroes and the reality of racism in America. TODAY: We talk with one of the show writers, @cordjefferson. 'Watchmen' has 26 Emmy nominations.
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I loved working on this show so much! And I'm so grateful for and honored by this recognition that I'm not even really sad that I can't go to Taix tonight with all my friends and have 9 martinis and 38 baskets of fries!
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Nothing ever ends...Congratulations to the cast and crew of #Watchmen on 26 #Emmy nominations, the most of any program.
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Had a great convo about pregnancy and writing and other stuff with the homie Jia via our friends at Pop-Up. Also, check out Priya's shikanji recipe. It's delicious on its own but I added some tequila to make a kind of Indian marg.
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You’re invited to dinner, @popupmag style! chef @priyakrishna makes white-bean stuffed poblanos, and writers @jiatolentino and @cordjefferson talk Watchmen, racism in America, and what it’s like to be pregnant during the strangest summer in living memory. bit.ly/dinnerguestsep2
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I had a very nice talk with at Color of Change about why therapy should be free and Watchmen and hiring black people and other stuff. Check it out!
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NEW EPISODE ALERT - @cordjefferson (Writer - Watchmen, The Good Place) joined our #TellBlackStories podcast to discuss #Watchmen, the impact stories have on culture, and why Hollywood needs to show up for Black lives. Subscribe + listen now: linktr.ee/TBSPodcast
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I really liked having this conversation with and but this is officially the video that ruined my own impression of my quarantine beard. I thought it read as distinguished and it instead reads as feral, a man who's given up.
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"We need to start having conversations about what policing looks like in our TV shows and movies" @cordjefferson joins #WatchLess to discuss how #WatchmenHBO's themes of systemic racism & trauma are feeling EXTRA relevant today Listen @ApplePodcasts: apple.co/3eda7fI
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