Hi!

… I’m Hannah, and I’m a freelance writer and editor specialising in pop culture. I worked as the Guardian’s deputy TV editor between 2019 and 2021, and as deputy editor, newsletters, between 2021 and 2024.

I cut my teeth as a teenager writing about music for the likes of NME and The Fly and writing a semi-successful, though generally illiterate blog. Along the way I’ve also written for VICE, Q Magazine (RIP), Refinery29, Time Out, British Vogue and more, and worked on branded content for the likes of Spotify, Sonos and MTV. I helped to write the Guardian’s Glastonbury mini Guide in 2016 and 2017, and edited a one-off Guardian TV supplement in 2017. Between 2016 and 2019 I floated around as a casual editor on culture/features at the Guardian, and covered editors at VICE and Red Bull.

As well as writing, I have dabbled in freelance French to English translation (culture-related stuff or music press releases) and artist biogs.

Between August 2023 and May 2024 I took a break from the newsroom to undertake an MA for mid-career journalists in arts and culture journalism at Columbia University in New York, thanks to the school’s Barbara London Lemann scholarship and funding from the Hugh Fulton Byas foundation for British journalists in the US. While at Columbia, I was awarded a Pulitzer Travelling fellowship, which will allow me to pursue an ambitious project related to arts journalism.

Contact: hannah [at] hannahjdavies dot com