Joy Press
TV Correspondent
Joy Press is the television correspondent at Vanity Fair. A former editor and writer for the Los Angeles Times and The Village Voice, she is the author of the book Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky and Threads.
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