Los Angeles culture strategist researcher video content travel writing and editing pop culture blogging and editing

Shana Ting Lipton is a Los Angeles based international pop culture and travel journalist, editor and blogger, and cultural researcher/strategist. One of her aims--as a U.S./European dual citizen--is to connect European and American cultures via the global collective brain/marketplace, bridging her pop culture and travel journalism expertise with her post-graduate work in European cultural studies in The Netherlands.

CULTURAL RESEARCH, STRATEGY AND BEYOND Shana Ting Lipton has parlayed her journalistic work in LA, Amsterdam and New York, and her intuitive ability to feret out cultural waves into projects with ad agencies and marketing firms in the realm of cultural research + strategy. CORPORATE CLIENTS The Intelligence Group/a division of CAA (LA/NY) Synovate (London) Ogilvy & Mather (NY) Goodness Mfg. (LA) Thalys International (Paris) Playboy Enterprises (Chicago) Espionage (London) Streative Branding (Amsterdam) PUNDITING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING Pundit, NBC 'News Raw'' Guest critic, UCLA, New Media Guest speaker, Ball-Nogues Gallery, Downtown LA Art Walk Instructor, Media Bistro Los Angeles EDUCATION Master of Arts, European Cultural Studies (cum laude) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bachelor of Arts Barnard College, Columbia University, New York Harvard-Westlake School Los Angeles, Caifornia


POP CULTURE AND TRAVEL JOURNALISM & EDITING Throughout her career Shana Ting Lipton has tackled au-courant and culturally relevant subjects such as the Internet as an aggregating prophet, eco-indulgence, bio-art, the science of love, human barcoding, professional party crashers, etc. for various media around the globe. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post, and a contributing writer for the LA Times magazine. She was editor of The Blackbook Guide to Los Angeles, and wrote and edited a weekly LA nightlife and culture segment for KTLA news with The Los Angeles Times online. She has also taught media related classes for Media Bistro. During her years in Amsterdam in the early Millennium, she contributed Europe-wide city travel writing to various publications. She also reported on the Dutch design scene and launched iN2, a magazine about creatives. Throughout her career, she has interviewed such high profile people as political comedian Bill Maher, global captain of industry Richard Branson, actors Dennis Quaid and Naomi Watts, legendary environmental artists Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude, pioneering environmental scientist James Lovelock, musicians Matisyahu, Duran Duran, and Bryan Ferry, artist Jeff Koons, author Anthony Haden-Guest, U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and entrepreneur and philanthropist George Soros. PRESS/MEDIA ABOUT SHANA TING LIPTON New York Post (regarding her trend writing) LA.com (subject of "Style Starter" column)