Will DiGravio

Will DiGravio is an editor, 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 & Editing: My work as a critic includes reviews, features, and essay on topics at the intersections of media, popular culture, and politics. I'm currently an assistant editor at the magazine, Cineaste. My writing has appeared in Time, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Millennium Film Journal, Senses of Cinema. I'm currently at contributor at Paste, where I write a weekly column on late night television. For LateNighter, I write a weekly column on late night history. 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.