I first started working at The FADER as a receptionist, but after bothering the editorial team over the course of my first few months about certain sub-genres of rap that I felt should’ve been receiving coverage, a senior editor was gracious enough to let me start writing for the digital site. Here is my first post I ever wrote for them.
After a handful of months writing mainly about music that interested me, I was able to carve out a role for myself on the editorial staff as a daily writer.
My duties included:
- Pitching and producing interviews with artists that operate in more niche circles, to the architects behind mainstream acts
- Covering the broader musical landscape and its intersection with culture (responsible for three blog posts a day)
- Working with brand partners to write the copy for creative content
- Contributed to staff-wide roundups and headed up weekly lists for music discovery
- Guiding the direction and ghostwrote the copy for Digital FORT — An online event put on in conjunction with Bacardi and TRULY to bring together nearly 100 virtual performances in order to raise money for COVID-19 assistance
Although I never covered samba rock for the FADER, here is a song I can’t stop playing: