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Emma Hernandez
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Emma Hernandez Bollinger is a full-time Digital Deputy Editor for In Touch, Life & Style and Closer, leading its newsroom and managing its remote team. She joined a360 Media in 2016, bringing her skills of entertainment news writing, reporting and SEO best practices. She covers all things celebrity and reality TV on top of assigning and editing exclusive, trending and breaking news content as well as analyzing traffic. Born and raised in New York City, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications with a concentration in journalism from the CUNY College of Staten Island in 2011. She cut her teeth in music journalism and pivoted to hard news during her time at the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism from 2013-2014. Her undying love of pop culture and unhealthy obsession with unscripted television led her to rebrand to celebrity news in 2015.
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