Occupation USA Today Children 1 Citizenship American Name Whitney Matheson | Notable works Pop Candy Role Writer Spouse Rhyne Piggott | |
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Born April 17, 1977 (age 47)
Fredericksburg, VA ( 1977-04-17 ) Notable awards Best Culture Blog of 2006 Books Atomic Home: A Guided Tour of the American Dream | ||
Whitney matheson pop candy blogger for usa today
Whitney Matheson (born April 21, 1977 in Fredericksburg, Virginia) is a pop culture writer. She was the author of Pop Candy, a popular entertainment blog which was part of USA Today from 1999–2014. She also wrote entertainment and pop culture features for the newspaper.
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- Whitney matheson pop candy blogger for usa today
- Whitney matheson of pop candy fame
- Pop Candy
- Personal life
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Matheson has delivered pop-culture commentary on several television networks, including VH1, E!, and G4 TV.
Whitney matheson of pop candy fame
Pop Candy
Matheson joined USA Today in 1999 and created Pop Candy that same year. Pop Candy began as a weekly online pop-culture column that covered television, movies, comic books, and music. During this period, Matheson also wrote a daily blog, Hip Clicks. As her web audience grew, Matheson merged Hip Clicks and Pop Candy in 2005 to form the Pop Candy blog. During its tenure, Pop Candy was cited in Wired, Slate, The Rough Guide to Blogging and on many other entertainment blogs, including Stereogum, Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch and RollingStone.com.
Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek awarded Pop Candy an EPpy award for the Best Entertainment Blog in 2008. In 2006, the Weblog Awards honored Pop Candy as the Best Culture Blog.
On September 3, 2014, Matheson confirmed that she had been laid off as part of a USA Today drawdown.
Personal life
Matheson lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She moved there from New York. On her Pop Candy blog dated April 13, 2012, Matheson announced she and her husband Rhyne Piggott were expecting their first child.