Aja Romano
Senior Culture Writer
Aja Romano is a senior culture reporter for Vox, focusing on the ethics of culture, as well as criticism and commentary on internet culture, movies, TV, theater, and other media. After starting out in local news, they spent many years as a theater reviewer and freelancer. They joined the Daily Dot in 2012 as a staff reporter, where they were one of the first journalists to cover Gamergate and many adjacent aspects of internet culture, and the alt-right’s convergence with mainstream US politics. Since joining Vox in 2016, they’ve also become known as an authority on “cancel culture” after several definitive pieces outlining the origins and evolution of the concept.
Aja is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute. They’re a frequent guest on podcasts, panels, and news media, speaking to a broad range of topics, including internet and pop culture, fandom, online extremism, and probably whatever you’re arguing about on social media this week. Find them on Twitter @ajaromano.
Latest articles by Aja Romano
Apple is poised to pay $95 million to users, but denies Siri was eavesdropping on purpose.
Veteran Minneapolis DJ Bill DeVille explains A Complete Unknown for fans and newbs alike.
The Hawaii resident’s disappearance became a viral internet mystery. That may have made things worse.
Why Brian Thompson’s death has provoked such complicated reactions from the public.
28 years after the murder, a new Netflix docuseries has us questioning what we think we know.
What to understand about the infamous ransom note, from Patsy Ramsey to the intruder theory.
The long, quirky history of Americans gawking at things
As more users flee X, a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning.
The investigation into the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams sums up the messy state of true crime.
Was Jeffrey Epstein really Donald Trump’s “closest friend”?