Jael
Goldfine

Hello, I'm currently a fact checker at The New Yorker and the managing editor of The Empty Cup, a newsletter about attention. Previously, I was an editor at Study Hall, a fact checker at The Nation, and a staff writer at Paper Magazine. 

 

I write about anti-tech politics and media culture. My work has appeared in The New Yorker, Jewish Currents, The Nation, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, GQ, Vulture, The New York Review of Architecture, Bandcamp, Study Hall, Stereogum, Glamour, Nylon, InStyle, Them, Uproxx and The Forward. 

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Most recently, I wrote short pieces for The New Yorker about Frankie Focus, the controversial Smokey Bear-esque mascot for New York's school smartphone ban and the D.R.E.A.M. (Don't Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor) Campaign, which helped elect Zohran Mamdani.

 

I've also written about activists fighting the attention economy, the demise of feminist media, the twitter account Pop Crave, Bandcamp's union drive, what musicians are doing on Substack, Ezra Furman, Love Island UK, and movie marketing.

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Recently, I fact-checked Hilton Als's memoir I Don't Remember, Malcolm Gladwell's new book The Revenge of The Tipping Point and season 10 of the podcast "Revisionist History.