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Enter your professional bio here : Adrienne Samuels Gibbs is an award-winning, Chicago-based, entertainment and culture journalist whose work appears in Fortune, Forbes, Marie Claire and Netflix. She is the author of Def Comedy Jam All-Stars Collector's Edition; an editor at large for The Triibe; and the former director of Content for Medium dot com. Adrienne's career started with her work as a reporter at The Miami Herald and The St. Pete Times before moving to the Boston Globe for her mid career reportage and narrative work. She returned to her hometown of Chicago to become the senior editor and eventually the EIC of Ebony magazine and then a columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times and a frequent host for NPR's Chicago station, WBEZ-91.5 FM. From Chicago, Adrienne held many titles at Medium, including Director of Content, director of Multicultural and Director of Creator Growth. While at Medium, Adrienne was the creator and editor in chief of Momentum, Stop Asian Hate and ZORA. She worked with hundreds of writers and is particularly proud of her work in the astrology, religion and race spaces. Adrienne's freelance career has seen her working as both a writer and an editor for magazine, digital and book projects. She provides voiceover work when requested. Her clients include The New York Times T Brand Studio, Netflix, Northwestern University magazine, Chicago magazine, the National Council of Teachers of English Council Chronical magazine, Subaru, Bank of the West, Pitchfork, Essence, Braven, The Pivot Fund, Family Circle. Cover Stories: Taraji P. Henson, George Lucas, Chance the Rapper, Diddy, Viola Davis, Russell Simmons, Chief Keef, Ludacris, Chris Brown, Attica Locke, Mary Mary, Nina Yang Bongiovi and Queen Latifah. Denzel Washington, President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.
Writing Credits : Netflix, Fortune, Forbes, NYT T Brand, Subaru Drive, Red Bull Media House, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, St. Petersburg Times, The Chicago Defender, WBEZ-91.5 FM Chicago, Chicago magazine, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Craft Council, Cook County Government (Rain Ready Brochure),
Awards and Recognition : Panelist: Trimming the Fat – Best Practices for Features Editing | National Association of Black Journalists Convention Cleveland | Cleveland, OH August 2025 Lecturer: Women and the Media | Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland | Washington DC, April 2025 Featured Speaker: Health Fair and Civic Engagement Summit for Jack and Jill of America | Chicago, April 2025 Lecturer: Digital Media and Fandom | American University | April 2025 Co-host: Tech Career Exploration with Verizon | speaker | Chicago's Verizon flagship store | 2025 Chicago 2.0: A Public Affairs Deep Dive | CAN-TV Chicago | 2025 Advanced Feature Writing seminar | speaker | NABJ annual convention | 2024 Anti-Violence Community Strategies | Panel Interviewer | University of Chicago Emergency Medicine | 2024 Tips For Freelancers | Speaker | Annual Meeting Chicago NABJ | 2022 Reflections of Covid, A Beloved Grandmother's Gift | Solo Feature | NPR-WBEZ Radio 2020 Cultural Impact of Chris Rock | Cultural Commentator | CNN | 2023 Social Media and Digital Journalism Lecture | University of Maryland | 2022- 2019 HumanitiesX | Long Form Social Content | Depaul University | 2021 The Woman King Q&A with the Cast, Delta Sigma Theta X | Sony Pictures Entertainment | 2022 How To Get Your News In the News | NABJ | 2011-2020 Fireside Chat with Chance the Rapper | Interlocutor | Museum of Contemporary Art & Pitchfork | 2018 Fireside Chat with Jamila Woods | In Sight Out with Pitchfork | 2021 Reflections on Covering the Death of Michael Jackson | NABJ-NAHJ Convention | 2010 Guest Host | WBEZ-FM (Chicago's NPR station) | 2012 - Present CNN Contributor | 2012-present #ChangeTheNarrative | Habitat for Humanity Annual Fundraiser | 2016
Skills (Select all that apply) : Advertorials, Annual reports, Articles, Blog posts, Books, Brochures, Case studies, Coaching, Communications strategy, Conference/meeting coverage, Content marketing, Copywriting, E-books, Editing, Essays, Event production, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Ideation, Media relations, News, News releases, Op-Ed, Profiles, Project management, Publication management, Q&A, Speechwriting, Web copy
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