Caroline Framke is a writer, editor, critic, and media consultant. For nearly 15 years, she has provided vital insight on TV, media, and how the entertainment industry impacts the wider world.

Her recent tenure as Chief TV Critic of Variety (2018 - 2023) included hundreds of reviews and reported features. Her cover stories profiled impactful Hollywood figures such as Maya Rudolph, Hannah Gadsby, and Ted Lasso duo Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple. She also won several LA/National Press Club Awards, including TV Critic of the Year.

With bylines in publications including The Boston Globe, Vulture, The Atlantic, The A.V. Club, and more, she relishes the chance to not just dissect television, but contextualize it. In so doing, she’s covered everything from internet culture, to the impact of the burgeoning #MeToo movement, to the ways in which reality TV twists actual reality. In addition to writing for print and digital magazines, she has also made frequent radio appearances, guested on podcasts, and collaborated on video content.

Prior to Variety, Framke was a Culture Writer at Vox; prior to that, she was working in television as a writers’ assistant on a late-night talk show.

Framke and her anxious attached dog (pictured) are currently based in Brooklyn, NYC.