Hans Ulrich Obrist, Monica Lewinsky, Paola Antonelli and More Share Their Media Diets
CULTURED magazine's media-diet feature showcases the news consumption habits of notable cultural figures. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, begins his day with The Economist Espresso, appreciates science magazines, enjoys the podcast Weird Studies, and reads Kim Hyesoon's Lady No. Betsy Morais, Editor-in-Chief of Columbia Journalism Review, engages with CJR and various other publications while steering clear of AI-generated news. Monica Lewinsky, host of Reclaiming, prefers Instagram over email at night and trusts the insights of Kara Swisher and Anderson Cooper. Chef Tara Thomas turns to Fare magazine and Estelle Lubino's Instagram. Rachel Karten follows L.A. Material and various online outlets. Myles Loftin relies on Twitter for updates, while Paola Antonelli reads The New York Times and design newsletters. Sam Fragoso listens to podcasts and subscribes to multiple magazines, and Tim Blanks reviews auction catalogues alongside major publications. Sarah Lewis reads several newspapers and teaches at Harvard.
Key facts
- CULTURED magazine published a media-diet feature on September 28, 2026, asking cultural insiders how they get their news.
- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, starts his day with The Economist Espresso and avoids screens before bed.
- Betsy Morais, Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journalism Review, never asks AI to tell her what's in the news.
- Monica Lewinsky, host of the Reclaiming podcast, checks Deux Moi despite knowing better and trusts Kara Swisher, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Anderson Cooper.
- Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, subscribes to Wired, MIT Tech Review, and The New York Review of Books.
- Sam Fragoso, host of Talk Easy, subscribes to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Puck, The Daily at Criterion, and The New York Review of Books.
- Tim Blanks, fashion journalist, reads auction catalogues as an escape and subscribes to Haaretz, Vanity Fair, and The Guardian.
- Sarah Lewis, founder of Vision & Justice, teaches a Harvard class called "Avoiding Failure?" and reads Chicago Tribune and Mississippi Today for coverage of "If Emmett Till Lived."
Entities
Artists
- Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Stanisław Lem
- Kim Hyesoon
- Betsy Morais
- Monica Lewinsky
- Tara Thomas
- Rachel Karten
- Myles Loftin
- Paola Antonelli
- Sam Fragoso
- Tim Blanks
- Sarah Lewis
- Ryan Broderick
- Margaret Sullivan
- Kara Swisher
- Sherrilyn Ifill
- Anderson Cooper
- Josh Johnson
- Estelle Lubino
- Emily Keegin
- Gem Fletcher
- Recho Omondi
- Matthew Belloni
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Jeneé Osterheldt
- Jerry Mitchell
- Ava DuVernay
- Tracy K. Smith
- Imani Perry
- Marlon James
- Nicholas Boggs
- Wagner Moura
- Oprah
- Keke Palmer
- Sophia Bush
- Don Lemon
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Rebecca Solnit
- James Baldwin
- Kyla Scanlon
- Ivy Wolk
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Nicholas Kristof
- Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Maggie Haberman
- Hilton Als
- Kyle Chayka
- Paul Krugman
- Matt Belloni
- David Hudson
- Alison Roman
- Milo Yiannopoulos
- Marina Hyde
- Matthew Schneier
- Rafael Behr
- Owen Gleiberman
- Danny Leigh
- Jonathan Liew
- David Wallace-Wells
- Jermaine Fowler
- Timothy Snyder
- John Pavlovitz
- Don Winslow
Institutions
- CULTURED
- Serpentine Galleries
- The Economist
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Garbage Day
- American Crisis
- The New York Times
- The Guardian
- New York magazine
- The New Yorker
- The Atlantic
- CNN
- NBC
- Deux Moi
- Reclaiming
- Fare magazine
- Link in Bio
- L.A. Material
- Errands
- Docs to Watch
- shaad magazine
- MAMA
- The Messy Truth
- The Cutting Room Floor
- Museum of Modern Art
- World in Brief
- NY1
- It's Nice That
- Dezeen
- designboom
- Frame
- Icon
- Surface
- Wallpaper*
- e-Flux Architecture
- The Information
- Wired
- MIT Tech Review
- Bloomberg City
- The Slowdown
- New York Review of Books
- Fresh Air
- The Brian Lehrer Show
- WNYC
- Talk Easy
- The Bill Simmons Podcast
- Puck
- The Daily at Criterion
- The Observer
- Vanity Fair
- Haaretz
- FT
- Vision & Justice
- Hyperallergic
- Boston Globe
- Chicago Tribune
- Mississippi Today
- Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Harvard
- The Humanity Archive
- Thinking about...
- The Beautiful Mess
Locations
- South Korea
- Los Angeles
- United States
- Paris
- France
- Athens
- Greece
- Canada
- Chicago
- Mississippi
- Cambridge
- Massachusetts
- Edinburgh
- United Kingdom
- Ibiza
- Spain