Neil Drumming is a journalist, filmmaker and producer for the radio
show, This American Life. He wrote and directed the 2014 film Big
Words.Drumming attended the University of Southern California.After
graduating from college, Drumming went to work for the Washington City
Paper in 1996. He was part of a group of hires by editor David Carr
that included several young black writers who went on to become voices
of their generation: hired alongside Drumming that year were eventual
New Yorker magazine staffer and history professor Jelani Cobb,
MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates, and performance artist and
playwright Holly Bass.From 2002 to 2007, Drumming worked as an editor
and music critic for Entertainment Weekly, later moving to Salon.
show, This American Life. He wrote and directed the 2014 film Big
Words.Drumming attended the University of Southern California.After
graduating from college, Drumming went to work for the Washington City
Paper in 1996. He was part of a group of hires by editor David Carr
that included several young black writers who went on to become voices
of their generation: hired alongside Drumming that year were eventual
New Yorker magazine staffer and history professor Jelani Cobb,
MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates, and performance artist and
playwright Holly Bass.From 2002 to 2007, Drumming worked as an editor
and music critic for Entertainment Weekly, later moving to Salon.
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