Anne Helen Petersen
Journalist and author of Can't Even; writes the Culture Study newsletter.
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- Anne Helen Petersen is an American writer and journalist.
- She was a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed until August 2020, when she left to write her newsletter Culture Study full time.
- Her 2019 BuzzFeed News piece on millennial burnout became the 2020 book Can't Even.
- With Charlie Warzel she wrote Out of Office (2021).
- In October 2025 she moved Culture Study from Substack to Patreon.
Key facts
- BuzzFeed
- Culture writer, from May 2014 to August 20201
- Education
- PhD in media studies, University of Texas at Austin (2011)1
- Books
- Scandals of Classic Hollywood (2014); Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud (2017); Can't Even (2020); Out of Office (2021)1
- Podcast
- Work Appropriate, Crooked Media, from October 2022 to October 20231
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