Steven Blum is a culture columnist and contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine. Previously, he was a contributing editor at Broadly, a digital director at FourTwoNine Magazine, Seattle City Guide editor at Blackbook Magazine, and a food columnist at The Stranger. His writing has also been featured in GQ, Vice, Slate, Billboard, Out Magazine, them., and Tablet.
He's interviewed an eclectic assortment of culture-makers throughout his career, including Ai Weiwei, Perfume Genius, Lucas Hedges, Ed Droste, Esther Perel, Rebecca Solnit, John Early, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey (creators of RuPaul's Drag Race), and Joel Edgerton.
He's also broken big political stories and investigated malfeasance in the healthcare, non-profit, government, and labor spheres. He's been interviewed by local NPR affiliates about his work and lectured undergrad students at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism.
In addition to journalism, Steven has worked as a content strategist for Google, United Way, and the European Commission. His work on United Way's "Everyone In" Campaign, which aims to end homelessness in L.A., was a finalist for the Shorty Awards. He produced campaign commercials and wrote social copy for the Safe Clean Water Act, a rain-capture measure that voters in L.A. County approved in 2018. He also edited Feminasty by Erin Gibson, one of the top-selling humor books on Amazon in 2018 and a finalist for the 2019 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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He's interviewed an eclectic assortment of culture-makers throughout his career, including Ai Weiwei, Perfume Genius, Lucas Hedges, Ed Droste, Esther Perel, Rebecca Solnit, John Early, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey (creators of RuPaul's Drag Race), and Joel Edgerton.
He's also broken big political stories and investigated malfeasance in the healthcare, non-profit, government, and labor spheres. He's been interviewed by local NPR affiliates about his work and lectured undergrad students at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism.
In addition to journalism, Steven has worked as a content strategist for Google, United Way, and the European Commission. His work on United Way's "Everyone In" Campaign, which aims to end homelessness in L.A., was a finalist for the Shorty Awards. He produced campaign commercials and wrote social copy for the Safe Clean Water Act, a rain-capture measure that voters in L.A. County approved in 2018. He also edited Feminasty by Erin Gibson, one of the top-selling humor books on Amazon in 2018 and a finalist for the 2019 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
If you have a tip, a commission, or if you just want to say hey, you can e-mail him here!
