Jolene Creighton
Jolene Creighton | |
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Born | Jolene Elizabeth Evans January 2, 1985 Geneva, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | Keuka College (BA), SUNY Brockport (MA) |
Occupation(s) | Media executive, entrepreneur, consultant |
Website | jolenecreighton |
Jolene Creighton (born 1985) is an American media executive, entrepreneur, and consultant.
Early life and education
Creighton attended
In 2014, Creighton’s pit bull achieved viral fame after Creighton uploaded a video of the dog barking apprehensively at a pineapple.[10][11] After the video went viral, Creighton noted that the dog was a stray and used the story to advocate for spaying, neutering, and adoption in press. "Ultimately, that night I found Stella, she wasn't alone. Not really. There are a million more animals out there who still need someone. In fact, there's more than a million," Creighton said.[12]
Career
Creighton began her career as an instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she taught courses on writing and communication.[1] In 2012, she co-founded the science news site From Quarks to Quasars, which was acquired in 2015.[13] Creighton left academia and fully transitioned to journalism later in 2015, when she helped launch Futurism and joined the team as the Founding Editor-in-Chief. The publication secured an average of 20 million monthly readers and 100 million monthly video views by April 2017.[14]
In November of 2017, at the height of the
Futurism was acquired by
Selected publications
- Creighton, Jolene (August 24, 2014). "Dark matter detected?". Hattiesburg American. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Creighton, Jolene (February 10, 2015). "Here's what happened when a woman sent a job rejection to a man". Business Insider. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Creighton, Jolene (August 2, 2017). "Buzz Aldrin Sees Humans on Mars within Next 20 Years". NBC.
- Creighton, Jolene (September 8, 2017). "Could 're-engineering' Earth help ease hurricane threats?". NBC News. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Creighton, Jolene (March 18, 2018). "OpenAI Wants to Make Safe AI, but That May Be an Impossible Task". Futurism.
- Creighton, Jolene (February 5, 2019). "The Breakdown of the INF: Who's to Blame for the Collapse of the Landmark Nuclear Treaty?". Future of Life.
- Creighton, Jolene (May 30, 2020). "The Inevitable Abyss: Each Year, We Lose Yet Another Section of The Universe". ScienceAlert. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Creighton, Jolene. "Jolene Creighton, Editor-in-Chief, Science Communication, Futurism". World Economic Forum. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
References
- ^ a b "The Future of Now – Jolene Creighton, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Publication at Futurism, LLC – Technologies That Are Impacting Our Lives Today and the Future Tech That Is On the Horizon". Finding Genius Podcast. October 9, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
- ^ Flanagan, Robin L. (April 10, 2017). "Founding Futurism". Keuka College. Archived from the original on October 19, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Entia, Laura (March 9, 2017). "Why People Are Freaking Out About a Blanket on Kickstarter". Fortune. Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Willens, Max (May 3, 2018). "After selling $15 million of gravity blankets (really), Futurism created an 8-person team to develop more products". Digiday. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ "Interesting Engineering Announces Their New Editor-in-Chief, Jolene Creighton". www.businesswire.com. December 2, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ a b "Jolene Creighton's Profile | nft now Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
- ^ Jabotinsky, Hadar, Y. (2023). "NFT for Eternity". University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 56 (3): 834 – via University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Collections.
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- ^ Hanson, Hilary (December 15, 2014). "WATCH: Dog Is Really Afraid Of Pineapple". HuffPost. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Richards, Chris (December 14, 2014). "Watch hilarious footage of dog who is terrified of....a PINEAPPLE". mirror. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ Robertson, Lindsey (December 17, 2015). "Mystified Pit Bull Is Terrified Of First-Ever Encounter With ... A Pineapple". The Dodo. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Jacobs, Richard (October 9, 2018). "The Future of Now – An Interview with Jolene Creighton, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Publication at Futurism". Finding Genius Podcast. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Flanagan, Robin L. "Founding Futurism". Keuka College. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Sutton, Kelsey (November 14, 2017). "George Takei's Facebook empire strains under sexual harassment allegations". Mic. Archived from the original on February 27, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Walters, Joanna (November 24, 2017). "George Takei saga sheds light on the murky world of pay-to-promote news". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 24, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Tolentino, Jia. "The Seductive Confinement of a Weighted Blanket in an Anxious Time". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Willens, Max (May 3, 2018). "After selling $15 million of gravity blankets (really), Futurism created an 8-person team to develop more products". Digiday. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ Willens, Max (March 15, 2019). "Gravity blanket seller Futurism acquired by Singularity University". Digiday. Archived from the original on April 11, 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ^ Al-Owis, Suhael (December 2, 2020). "Interesting Engineering Announces Their New Editor-in-Chief, Jolene Creighton". www.businesswire.com. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved March 6, 2021.