Will DiGravio

Will DiGravio is a culture writer, media scholar, fact-checker, and researcher for books, podcasts, and other journalistic and historical projects. He lives in New York City. 

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Writing: My work as a critic includes essays, features, and reviews on film for publications like Senses of Cinema, Millennium Film Journal, Film School Rejects, Crooked Marquee, and Cineaste, where I am an assistant editor. Writings on comedy and television have been published in Time, the Los Angeles Review of Books, LateNighter, and Paste, where I write a weekly column on late night TV. I vote in the Dorian Awards as a member of GALECA.

History & Journalism: I maintain an active practice as a researcher for historical and journalistic projects. My work as a book researcher includes the New York Times bestseller, When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day, UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There, and The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb, all from Simon & Schuster. And also Five Bullets, a forthcoming book from Penguin on vigilantism in America. I also worked as the researcher on the Murrow Award-winning podcast, Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right. 

My work as a fact-checker includes the article series and documentary on the crisis of homeless veterans, "Home of the Brave," for which I shared in an award from the National Press Foundation. 

Scholarship: I am a PhD Candidate in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Through my work on videographic criticism, remix culture, and found footage, I have been invited to lecture, teach, and curate work at institutions throughout the US and Europe. In 2023, I joined the Film Studies Program at UMass Amherst as an Adjunct Instructor. Since 2019, I have hosted The Video Essay Podcast.

Contact: I am always looking for potential collaborations! Please be in touch: willdigravio [at] gmail.com.