Podcast appearances and mentions of emmy favilla

Randi and her guests talk about trends in philanthropy, unique gifting ideas, and Giving Tuesday. Guests include: Alix Guerrier, CEO of education nonprofit DonorsChoose, Tim Chan, Senior Director of Editorial and Commerce, Rolling Stone, Emmy Favilla, theSkimm's Director of Commerce Content, Patt Duffy, Co-Founder, The Giving Block.

Tom's guest today is Emmy Jo Favilla. She's the senior manager of “brand voice” at BuzzFeed in New York (she'll explain what that job entails), and formerly its senior commerce editor. For several years before that, she was BuzzFeed’s global copy chief. As such, she created the BuzzFeed Style Guide, which, when it went public in 2014, was heralded by one reviewer as “the style guide for the internet.” (Notice the lower-case ----i---- in ----internet.----) Favilla's years as a style guru led to her first book, published in 2017. It’s called A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age. It's an instructive and hilarious guide through the perils and pleasures of the modern English language. We first dove into Emmy Favilla’s book when she was a guest on Midday last November. And she joins Tom again today from Argot Studios in Manhattan.

Word nerds: You’re in luck. With whom is Tom speaking today? Emmy Favilla, the senior commerce editor and former global copy chief at BuzzFeed. As such, she created the BuzzFeed Style Guide which she later developed into a book called A World Without ----Whom----: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age.It is hilarious. It is instructive. It pays homage to the serial comma as the “cilantro of punctuation marks.” It offers a love sonnet to the em-dash. And perhaps most of all, this book is a high-five to popular usage and an ever-so-kindly issued rebuke to every English teacher we’ve ever had.

Word nerds: You’re in luck. With whom is Tom speaking today? Emmy Favilla, the senior commerce editor and former global copy chief at BuzzFeed. As such, she created the BuzzFeed Style Guide which she later developed into a book called A World Without ----Whom----: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age.It is hilarious. It is instructive. It pays homage to the serial comma as the “cilantro of punctuation marks.” It offers a love sonnet to the em-dash. And perhaps most of all, this book is a high five to popular usage and an ever-so-kindly issued rebuke to every English teacher we’ve ever had.

Buzzfeed editor Emmy Favilla wrote a book! She's clearly not phubbing around. We sat down with the Brooklyn-born author of A World Without Whom to talk about what “phubbing” even means, the evolution of language (thanks to the—lowercase “i”—internet), grammar lies told by spry, elderly typing teachers, and reasons (OR reasons why) the em-dash is so elegant and the en-dash should die. We discover that Andrew Keegan is still hot, but has no followers on twitter (gasp!) and that he might be in a cult. Also, we'd prefer to be sour cream people (people with generally sour dispositions who are super into cream) than sour-cream people, thank you very much.

We look at how art has changed since events in New York back in 2001 with the Imperial War Museum. Plus: the Sapphic Suffragettes. Emmy Favilla on our changing language and how to be a natural baker.

Omnibus podcast hosts Ken Jennings and John Roderick give a glimpse of what stories are inside their audio time capsule for future generations (and/or alien invaders), BuzzFeed grammar wiz Emmy Favilla breaks down the problem with punctuation, Seattle’s Civic Poet Anastacia-Reneé shares what it’s like to have an identity that encapsulates everything the president hates, and singer-songwriter Laura Gibson utilizes her newly acquired MFA to improvise musical CliffsNotes about literary classics.

On this episode: We're back with part two of our interview with copy chief Emmy Favilla and style editor Julie Gerstein from BuzzFeed. Listen as Julie and Emmy bare all in our Lightnin' Round! Links: Emmy Favilla, @em_dash3 Julie Gerstein, @havethehabit We love Grammarly, and are proud to share their service. If you're too busy to listen to all of our amazing grammar and writing advice, just use Grammarly and let them do all the work of making sure you

On this episode: Part one of our interview with copy chief Emmy Favilla and style editor Julie Gerstein from BuzzFeed. We gush over dashes; learn about BuzzFeed's new word nerd newsletter; dissect BuzzFeed's style guide; and discuss how BuzzFeed tackles feminism, one meme at a time. Tune in Thursday for a bonus episode with part two of this interview. Links: Emmy Favilla, @em_dash3 Julie Gerstein, @havethehabit BuzzFeed Newsletter