Background
Sklar was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sklar was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she was valedictorian.
She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where she was the Vice-President Communications of the University Students" Council, as well as a regular contributor to the campus newspaper, The Gazette. Sklar became a full-time freelance writer on a wide array of topics. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Glamour, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune, Wallpaper*, The New York Post, and The Village Voice.
Sklar was, until 7 November 2008, the Media & Special Projects Editor for the Huffington Post.
She wrote and edited the site"s Eat The Press page. She previously wrote and edited FishbowlNY, a New York-based media industry blog.
Sklar is a guest panelist on Fox News Watch, a current events debate program on the Fox News Channel, and has made appearances on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, which is also a Fox News program She is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity, for HarperCollins.
In January 2009, she left the Huffington Post to join The Daily Beast.
She has worked for Dan Abrams, at Abrams Research and as Editor-at-Large for Mediaite. In 2013, Sklar soft launched tech start-up, The Li.st, that serves as "a platform for awesome women.".
She was also an active member of the University of Western Ontario Debating Society.