Jennifer Mills News
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Jennifer Mills |
| Editor | Jennifer Mills |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Language | English |
| Website | jennifermillsnews |
Jennifer Mills News is an American weekly one-page newspaper published by, and about, Jennifer Mills.
Jennifer Mills (born December 1984)[1] is a writer and producer for the NPR show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! From 2016 to 2018, she worked in the graphic department at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she created over-the-shoulder collages for the show's comedy segments.[2][3]
Mills grew up in Shoreview, Minnesota before attending Concordia College. In 2011, she earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Brooklyn.[4]
History
On September 13, 2002, a 17-year-old Mills created a one-page newspaper about her day in the computer lab at Perpich Arts High School. The lead story was headlined "Breakfast News" and recounted Mills had eaten a cranberry-orange bagel but accidentally burned it by setting her toaster to shade four instead of three. She printed eleven copies and distributed them to teachers, friends, and family.[5][6]
Early editions of the newspaper were created "anywhere that had free printing privileges", Mills recalled in The New Yorker; this predominantly meant Concordia College's computer lab at night. She taped issues in bathroom stalls, then began emailing them to readers via Word document.[5] More recent editions are posted on the News' Tumblr page.[5]
Issues are usually released every week, though have sometimes been inconsistent; none were published between May 25, 2012 and September 17, 2014, a gap which Mills attributed to her "first real job".[5]
In February 2017, Mills published "Bad Poems Happen to Good People: 200 Poems (Rounded up to the Nearest 200)", an anthology of poetry that appeared in the News.[7]