Education
Gould graduated from Eugene Language College after previously attending.
Gould graduated from Eugene Language College after previously attending.
She is the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books, and a former co-editor at Gawker.com. Gould started her career writing for Gawker. She left the site in November 2007.
Gould appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in May 2008.
The accompanying article discussed her experience blogging and oversharing. Gould, with Zareen Jaffery, is the co-author of the young adult novel Hex, which was released by Penguin"s Razorbill imprint in May 2007.
She is also the author of a collection of essays, And the Heart Says Whatever, published by Free Press in May 2010. Her semi - autobiographical novel, Friendship, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014).
On April 6, 2007, Emily Gould appeared on an episode of Larry King Live hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel during a panel discussion titled "Paparazzi: Do they go too far?" During the interview, Kimmel accused Gould of irresponsible journalism resulting from Gould"s popular blog.
Kimmel mentioned the possibility of assisting real stalkers, adding that Gould and her website could ultimately be responsible for someone"s death. Kimmel continued to claim a lack of veracity in Gawker"s published stories, and the potential for libel it presents. Gould stated that the section of the website in question represented "citizen journalism" and went on to say that no one expected everything in the section to be true.
The panel pointed out the contradiction of calling something "journalism" that wasn"t expected to be true.
At the end of the exchange Gould stated that she didn"t "think it was ok" for websites to publish false information, after which Kimmel said she should "check your website then" This interview was alluded to in the show The Newsroom in season 3, episode 5. On May 4, 2007, Gould reacted to the interview in an article she wrote for The New York Times.
An article she wrote about her experiences with Gawker.com was the New York Times Magazine cover story on May 25, 2008. In the article, she described how the negative response to her television appearance caused her to suffer panic attacks which led her to seek therapy.