Writer & Reporter
Audra Heinrichs is a New York City-based journalist specializing in reporting and feature writing on music, entertainment and cultural moments and movements. Currently, she is a staff writer and on camera host at Jezebel. Her work has been featured in a number of publications including: The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Teen Vogue, L’Officiel, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Elle, Bustle, Refinery29, The Telegraph, and others.
Throughout her ten-year career, Heinrichs has followed how a police killing of a migrant worker left an unincorporated farming community reeling during the covid-19 pandemic; the plight of a group of male sexual assault survivors plagued by an ongoing fight against one of the most powerful universities in the country; a philanthropy titan’s public fall from grace; the unionization of a group of sex workers in Los Angeles; the rise of the queer pop band who stole the hearts of America’s last remaining straights; and conservatives’ systematic elimination of abortion in her home state of Ohio. Most recently, she profiled The Last Dinner Party for Rolling Stone’s critically acclaimed “Future 25” package, went behind the scenes of a Hallmark film for Vogue, and saw her abortion coverage make the front page of The Washington Post.
She has also spent time with a number of celebrities and public figures (on camera and in print) for Jezebel and scores of publications, including: Emmy-award winning actors, Danny DeVito and Hannah Einbinder; Grammy-winning singer songwriters, Brandi Carlile, Melissa Etheridge, Paula Cole, Gillian Welch, and Tegan and Sara; acclaimed storytellers, Lisa Ling and dream hampton; the self-proclaimed Greatest Band In The World, MUNA; NYT Bestselling author, Michelle Zauner; countless Real Housewives and scores of others.
Heinrichs holds an M.A. in American Journalism from New York University and a B.A. in English Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University. She has led students at Harvard University, New York University, and other places of education in courses of her design to empower their storytelling.
She still claims Ohio.
