{"id":48184,"date":"2015-09-04T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/speaker\/stephen-thompson\/"},"modified":"2015-09-04T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:29:56","slug":"stephen-thompson","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/speaker\/stephen-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen is an editor and reviewer for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR Music<\/a>, where he writes the advice column\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/186913067\/the-good-listener\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Listener<\/a>, fusses over the placement of commas and appears as a frequent panelist on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=37\" target=\"_blank\"><em>All Songs Considered<\/em><\/a>. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the weekly NPR roundtable podcast\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/rss\/podcast\/podcast_detail.php?siteId=89697153\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pop Culture Happy Hour<\/em><\/a>, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=92071316\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny Desk Concerts<\/a>, in which musicians perform at Boilen&#39;s desk.\u00a0In 1993, Stephen founded\u00a0<em>The Onion<\/em>&#39;s entertainment section,\u00a0<em>The A.V. Club<\/em>, which he edited until December 2004. In the years since, he has provided music-themed commentaries for the NPR programs\u00a0<em>Weekend Edition Sunday<\/em>,\u00a0<em>All Things Considered<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Morning Edition<\/em>, on which he earned the distinction of becoming the first member of the NPR Music staff ever to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121776666\" target=\"_blank\">sing on an NPR newsmagazine<\/a>. (Later,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/2009\/12\/exclusive_free_download_the_wo.html\" target=\"_blank\">the magic of AutoTune<\/a>\u00a0transformed him from a 12th-rate David Archuleta into a fourth-rate Cher.) Thompson&#39;s entertainment writing has also run in\u00a0<em>Paste<\/em>\u00a0magazine,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The London Guardian<\/em>.\u00a0A 1994 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Thompson now lives in Silver Spring, Md., with his two children, four cats and a room full of vintage arcade machines. His hobbies include watching reality television without shame, eating Pringles until his hand has involuntarily twisted itself into a gnarled claw, using the size of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/idislikestephen\" target=\"_blank\">his Twitter following<\/a>\u00a0to assess his self-worth, touting the immutable moral superiority of the Green Bay Packers and maintaining a fierce rivalry with all Midwestern states other than Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":61850,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Stephen","last_name":"Thompson","title":"Writer \/ Editor","organization":"NPR Music","website":"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/5244882\/stephen-thompson","twitter":"idislikestephen","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/48184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=48184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}