No Day Is The Same: Member Spotlight on Jane Mulkerrins

April 22, 2015

By Jennifer Szweda Jordan

Journalist Jane Mulkerrins frequently interviews hot Hollywood actors like Matthew McConaughey and famous folks like the real-life Wolf of Wall Street in her reports for top UK-based newspapers and magazines.

But, the Joynture member equally embraces the not-so-glam subjects; she has written about teen drug addicts and a Tennessee couple who adopted a feral child.

What Mulkerrins, 37, loves about her work, she says, is “meeting interesting people, and incredibly bright people. No day is the same, no week is the same.”

But, if reporting is an adventure, it’s also a slog.  “People think it’s glamorous,” she says. “But what they don’t know is the research, and the hours and hours spent transcribing tape.”

Mulkerrins, originally from Derbyshire, England, moved to New York City after the London-based newspaper for which she worked closed during the recession in 2009.

“I’d always wanted to live in New York and I had friends here,” she says.  And she believed there would be enough stories in New York to sustain her as a freelance writer.

On a recent day, Mulkerrins was filing multiple stories for her clients, which include publications such as The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian and Grazia magazine.  One of her latest subjects was Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician and pianist who’s written a book to help women feel more confident about math.  Another was Aliza Licht, DKNY’s social media whiz who has written a book to mentor young people in professionalism. Mulkerrins’ schedule this week also includes covering the opening of the new home for The Whitney Museum of American Art.

To learn more about Mulkerrins’ work, follow her on Twitter at @Mulkerrins.

And if you get to chat with Mulkerrins, know that there’s a question you might be tempted to ask that she hates: “Who’s the most famous or interesting person I’ve ever met?”

She will smile and politely answer the question but she just doesn’t like “ranking people.”

The most interesting people are generally not the most famous people,” she says.


Jennifer Szweda Jordan is a freelance writer and the former host of The Allegheny Front.

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