Writer

Jennifer Netherby is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, who works as a copywriter for various L.A.-based companies and as a journalist.

Her stories about music, movies, technology, people and places have appeared in Billboard, Daily Variety, Premiere, HGTV.com,Oregon Business and other publications and websites.

As a journalist, for “work,” she visited Harry Potter’s childhood home on the film’s London set and delved into more serious subjects, covering the intersection of technology and entertainment with stories on Netflix, Hulu and the Hollywood studios’ fears of Apple domination. For nearly a decade, she chronicled the rise and fall of the DVD business for home entertainment trade Video Business. She’s been quoted as a home entertainment expert by Entertainment Weekly and the New York Post. More recently, her story examining efforts by Portland musicians to reinvent the music business on their own terms won an award from the Oregon chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

More importantly, David Letterman featured her story on a pot-smoking Subway sandwich maker running for city council in his Small Town News segment (which, regrettably, is not up on YouTube!) In 2007, she ran away to Paris to study French at the Sorbonne.

These days, she’s based in Los Angeles. While she continues to write for magazines and trade publications on occasion, in 2010 she began working with businesses writing marketing materials, compiling research for corporate white papers and creating other written materials.