Jennifer Barnett
@jenzerb.bsky.social
Former managing editor of The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, Redbook, Elle. Expat in Amsterdam.
https://stroopwaffled.substack.com/
https://stroopwaffled.substack.com/
Kids are doing a better job reporting the news than legacy journalists. A 15 year old kid in Amsterdam documented and reported the Maccabi soccer fan vs. Muslim cab driver violence in Amsterdam better than the NYT. A kid on Tiktok explained the Kirk shooter's motives and ideology better than anyone.
September 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Kids are doing a better job reporting the news than legacy journalists. A 15 year old kid in Amsterdam documented and reported the Maccabi soccer fan vs. Muslim cab driver violence in Amsterdam better than the NYT. A kid on Tiktok explained the Kirk shooter's motives and ideology better than anyone.
Robert Redford was nearly cast as the husband in Rosemary's Baby. Imagine how amazing and dynamic that would have been. He'll always be handsome, aloof, dastardly Hubbell to me. I've had a crush on him since I was a kid. Who didn't? RIP you beauty.
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Robert Redford was nearly cast as the husband in Rosemary's Baby. Imagine how amazing and dynamic that would have been. He'll always be handsome, aloof, dastardly Hubbell to me. I've had a crush on him since I was a kid. Who didn't? RIP you beauty.
I wrote about how I get into trouble when I'm bored and the mischief I make at parties for my own amusement. After last week I figured we could use some levity. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Troublemaking at Parties
A coffee table how-to book I'd like to write
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September 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I wrote about how I get into trouble when I'm bored and the mischief I make at parties for my own amusement. After last week I figured we could use some levity. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Good job not voting for Harris because genocide, assholes.
September 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Good job not voting for Harris because genocide, assholes.
I wrote about being quoted in the Condé Nast book, drinking magic tea in the Vondelpark with strangers, and the tall ships sailing into Amsterdam. Walter, a new reader, was not impressed with this post. Poor Walter. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Magic mushrooms, tall ships, and Condé Nast
I’m quoted in the new Condé Nast book — two pages on how you had to know how to speak Condé Nast, which at first I did not know how to do, but I learned quickly.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wrote about being quoted in the Condé Nast book, drinking magic tea in the Vondelpark with strangers, and the tall ships sailing into Amsterdam. Walter, a new reader, was not impressed with this post. Poor Walter. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
A short post about a movie I love that hits differently in middle age. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Same Time, Next Year
A short post about a movie I love
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August 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A short post about a movie I love that hits differently in middle age. open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
I wrote about the end of summer in Amsterdam and bones that fall out of feet and pirate vampire gods and some other things. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/last-gasp-...
Last gasp of summer in Amsterdam
My brain does not like to be harnessed.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wrote about the end of summer in Amsterdam and bones that fall out of feet and pirate vampire gods and some other things. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/last-gasp-...
I wrote a new Stroopwaffled about... everything. We moved to Amsterdam seven years ago. It’s a winding tale of a midlife reckoning. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/seven-year...
Seven Years in Amsterdam
On healing
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July 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I wrote a new Stroopwaffled about... everything. We moved to Amsterdam seven years ago. It’s a winding tale of a midlife reckoning. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/seven-year...
I didn't trust Ben Smith to report about my experience as the managing editor of The Atlantic as I thought he was too buddy buddy with my former bosses, then he formed a company with one -- the former president of The Atlantic who was in a relationship with the head of HR at The Atlantic. Anyway...
Ben Smith wrote a condescending and frankly dumb analysis of the Epstein stuff. You're a media analyst and you don't understand that even old information can have very different effects depending on the timing you make it salient again? www.semafor.com/article/07/2...
July 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I didn't trust Ben Smith to report about my experience as the managing editor of The Atlantic as I thought he was too buddy buddy with my former bosses, then he formed a company with one -- the former president of The Atlantic who was in a relationship with the head of HR at The Atlantic. Anyway...
New Stroopwaffled up about the contraptions you see floating on the Amsterdam canals, and how not everything has to be polished or fancy to have value. Weird stuff is cool.
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Ramshackle Structures
I love a contraption.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New Stroopwaffled up about the contraptions you see floating on the Amsterdam canals, and how not everything has to be polished or fancy to have value. Weird stuff is cool.
open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
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I'm going to lose people over this, but so be it. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/the-dutchi...
The Dutchies kissed Trump’s ass to prevent WWIII
It’s working. For now.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm going to lose people over this, but so be it. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/the-dutchi...
Solidarity with not only the women who went on the record here, but also all the women who are plunged back into their own trauma after reading this. 💙
“I’m sober now” is such a shitty excuse for abusers to wash themselves clean of their past behavior. Too many women have to endure this.
When women experience something disorienting and abusive from someone they trust (particularly a person who holds power) the first instinct is usually to push it aside while they gather themselves and it can take time for them to fully face it
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May 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Solidarity with not only the women who went on the record here, but also all the women who are plunged back into their own trauma after reading this. 💙
“I’m sober now” is such a shitty excuse for abusers to wash themselves clean of their past behavior. Too many women have to endure this.
When women experience something disorienting and abusive from someone they trust (particularly a person who holds power) the first instinct is usually to push it aside while they gather themselves and it can take time for them to fully face it
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
www.cjr.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“I’m sober now” is such a shitty excuse for abusers to wash themselves clean of their past behavior. Too many women have to endure this.
When women experience something disorienting and abusive from someone they trust (particularly a person who holds power) the first instinct is usually to push it aside while they gather themselves and it can take time for them to fully face it
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
www.cjr.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
When women experience something disorienting and abusive from someone they trust (particularly a person who holds power) the first instinct is usually to push it aside while they gather themselves and it can take time for them to fully face it
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
Reposted by Jennifer Barnett
This is true. The Washington Post had everything CJR had from me, also on the record by name.
and on that note… someone please ask @washingtonpost.com why they cut Olivia out of their version of this story hours before they published? they had all the same reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Star journalist Wesley Lowery faced Title IX complaints before leaving American University
Lowery resigned after allegations that he made inappropriate sexual comments in meetings with students and unwanted sexual advances toward journalists, records show.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This is true. The Washington Post had everything CJR had from me, also on the record by name.
Reposted by Jennifer Barnett
Many of my friends expressed support for Wes Lowery when American University fired him. I was so upset to see that but I understood that few knew just how bad a person he is. Please read this. You will see.
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
www.cjr.org
May 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Many of my friends expressed support for Wes Lowery when American University fired him. I was so upset to see that but I understood that few knew just how bad a person he is. Please read this. You will see.
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
I wrote an essay/rant a few years ago called I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge, and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up, and it’s still relevant and Jake Tapper can fuck all the way off. jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-ca...
I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In…
I had the plumb job. The top of the masthead of one of the most prestigious and respected publications with more than a 150-year-old…
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May 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I wrote an essay/rant a few years ago called I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge, and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up, and it’s still relevant and Jake Tapper can fuck all the way off. jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-ca...
New Stroopwaffled on longing vs. the desire to do nothing. Also, one time I peed on Kenneth Starr's daughter's front lawn for reasons only tangentially related to Kenneth Starr. Xoxo open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
On Longing
You want to do nothing, but you are in a constant state of longing.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New Stroopwaffled on longing vs. the desire to do nothing. Also, one time I peed on Kenneth Starr's daughter's front lawn for reasons only tangentially related to Kenneth Starr. Xoxo open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Pretty sure this is how Robert Plant’s son died after swimming in the creek on Aleister Crowley’s estate, which was owned by Jimmy Page and used in The Song Remains the Same movie showing Plant’s kids playing in the creek.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
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May 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Pretty sure this is how Robert Plant’s son died after swimming in the creek on Aleister Crowley’s estate, which was owned by Jimmy Page and used in The Song Remains the Same movie showing Plant’s kids playing in the creek.
Eric Lipton can put this in his pipe and smoke it.
This Air Force One coverage shows how the media “both sides’s” Trump’s corruption—criticism is the “problem” of Dems and crunchy “good government” losers alone. How about a headline like: “No GOP Senator Objects to Trump Accepting Half-Billion-Dollar Bribe”? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...
Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight
Of course a foreign government would love to give the US president a plane....
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May 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Eric Lipton can put this in his pipe and smoke it.
Aansprakelijkheidsverzekering is a real Dutch word. It means liability insurance.
May 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Aansprakelijkheidsverzekering is a real Dutch word. It means liability insurance.
I wrote about The Isle of Skye, Virginia Giuffre, and tulips. It's a meditation on isolation and returning to the light. xo open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Isle of Skye, Virginia Giuffre, and tulips
On isolation and returning to the light
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May 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I wrote about The Isle of Skye, Virginia Giuffre, and tulips. It's a meditation on isolation and returning to the light. xo open.substack.com/pub/stroopwa...
Some Isle of Skye Fairy Glen magic for us. 🧚♀️
April 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Some Isle of Skye Fairy Glen magic for us. 🧚♀️
Her courage inspired other women to come forward. Rest, Virginia.
“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died aged 41
Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died aged 41
Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.
Her family on Saturday issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years. Continue reading...
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April 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Her courage inspired other women to come forward. Rest, Virginia.
“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”