Diedre Johnson is a skilled, experienced writer specializing in entertainment and fashion features, film and TV reviews, interviews, and the business of Hollywood. She’s a former writer-on-contract for Netflix and a former freelance writer for Variety’s Content Studio (VCS), plus many other entertainment publications.
Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Variety, Backstage, Pastemagazine.com, Blackgirlnerds.com, Theatermania.com, DailyMail.com, Moviefone.com, Movieline magazine, Soap Opera Digest, plus many others.
For over ten years, she was a contributor to TV Soap, Australia’s No. 1 daytime and primetime print magazine. She furthered her international experience reporting and writing entertainment and fashion features, and interviews in Vogue Italy, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Vogue Japan, and August Man magazine in Singapore.
Earlier in her career, she covered city council, business and real estate for the Los Angeles Daily Commerce. As a reporter and staff writer for AMI/Star Magazine, Diedre covered celebrity news and features. After five years on staff, she freelanced for the publication on the red carpet, which led to more event reporting for the ‘Daily News,’ Hello! Magazine, In Touch and other celebrity weeklies.
Her public relations experience includes full-time staff for two boutique agencies, and later a part-time position as the in-house editor at NRPR, a PR firm that specializes in tech startups. As the editorial production manager at Coolhunt Inc., she scheduled cover shoots for foreign legacy magazines such as Marie Claire Korea, Harper’s Bazaar China and India for one year, from 2017-2018.
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