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Leslie Savan
Leslie Savan is an American journalist and critic known for her analysis of media and politics. She is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism for her Village Voice columns on advertising and society. Since 2008, she has been writing for The Nation, and was a finalist for the 2018 Mirror Awards for best commentary, for “What’s Going to Save Journalism?” Her first book, The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture (Temple U. Press, 1995) is a collection of her Voice columns. Her second book, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever (Knopf, 2005; Vintage, 2006), explores what she calls "pop language" and brings her critique of commercialism to everyday language itself. Savan has appeared as a commentator on TV and radio and in the documentaries Nobody Speak: Trials of a Free Press (Netflix, 2017) and Helvetica (PBS, 2007). She was an adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur I. Carter Institute of Journalism in 2012.

Family
Leslie Savan was born and raised in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of Sidney and Annette Barbara Savan. She is the sister of the late Glenn Savan, author of the novels White Palace  (the basis for the movie White Palace , with Susan Sarandon and James Spader) and Goldman's Anatomy . She lives with her husband, writer, artist, and Star Ledger art critic Dan Bischoff and their son in New Jersey.

Honors and Awards
The Nation: 2018 Mirror Awards.
 * “What’s Going to Save Journalism?” finalist for best commentary,

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers :
 * A winner of the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006.
 * A winner of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities 2006 Book Collection.

The Village Voice, “Op-Ad” (a/k/a “The Sell”), a column on advertising and society:
 * Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism, 1997, 1992 , 1991.
 * Named one of "The Top Ten Media Heroes" by the Institute for Alternative Journalism, 1996.

Books
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever (Knopf, 2005; Vintage Paperback, 2006)

The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture (Temple University Press, 1995)

Contributed Chapters

 * "Did Somebody Say 'Community'?" Many Americas: Reading and Writing Across the Cultural Divide (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
 * "Truth in Advertising?" Readings in Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
 * "Questions for Commercials," Readings for the 21st Century (Allyn & Bacon, 2000)
 * "This Typeface Is Changing Your Life," Looking Closer 3: Classic Writings on Graphic Design (Allworth Press, 1999)
 * "Sneakers and Nothingness," The Sneaker Book (The New Press, 1998)
 * We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy (The New Press, 1997)
 * "The Bribed Soul," Making Choices: Reading Issues in Context, Houghton Mifflin (1997)
 * "The Bribed Soul," Arguing in Communities (Mayfield, 1996)
 * "Rebel Advertising," Alt.Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s--Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter (HarperCollins, 1995)
 * "Commercials Go Rock," Sound & Vision: The Music Video Reader (Routledge, 1993)
 * The March to War (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992)
 * "Buy-It Riot," Inside the L.A. Riots: What Really Happened--and Why It Will Happen Again (Institute for Alternative Journalism, 1992)
 * "The Face of the People," Cast a Cold Eye: American Opinion Writing (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991)

Selected Articles

 * "What's Going to Save Journalism?" The Nation, Dec. 15, 2017
 * "Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?" The Nation, Sept. 26, 2016.
 * "Does Hulk Hogan’s Lawsuit Against Gawker Really Threaten Freedom of the Press?" The Nation, March 21, 2016.
 * "From Simple Noun to Handy Partisan Put-Down," New York Times Magazine, Oct.18, 2009
 * "Decoding the new MTV-speak," The New Yorker, March 29, 1999

Documentary Appearances

 * Nobody Speak (2017), Trials of a Free Press, Netflix.
 * HelveticaItalic text (2007), PBS/Independent Lens.