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Andrew Kirell is a writer, commentator, and journalist currently with the news and entertainment website Mediaite.

Background and education
Kirell was raised in South Huntington, New York and graduated from Walt Whitman High School. He then studied George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he studied under libertarian economists like Walter E. Williams, Donald J. Boudreaux, and Bryan Caplan. As an economics major, Kirell graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Wall Street Journal Award for outstanding academic achievement. He currently resides in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York with his girlfriend and two cats.

Career
Kirell originally began his career in television, interning for ABC News newsmagazine program 20/20. While an intern, Kirell co-wrote several ABC News articles with 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel. When Stossel left ABC in the fall of 2009, Kirell was brought over by the veteran journalist to become part of the production staff on his new weekly Fox Business Network show Stossel.

Producing more than a hundred segments for

MEDIAITE: http://www.mediaite.com/online/why-i-never-became-mediaites-fox-news-mole/ http://www.mediaite.com/online/mediaite-adds-3-writereditors-in-preparation-for-political-season/ http://www.mediaite.com/online/an-open-letter-to-glenn-beck-from-the-guy-he-called-a-moron-and-buffoon/

MARIJUANA: http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-silent-marijuana-majority-pat-robertson-arianna-huffington-snoop-dogg-and-me/#comment-689729180 http://marijuanamajority.com/?id=669

ABC: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2009/03/the-smell-of-mo/

ARTICLES: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6654468&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7510806&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7537710&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7517412&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7067596&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7795824&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7070646&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7522306&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7938095&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=8364856