Shirley Li

Title: Former Staff Writer
Education: Northwestern University
  • Shirley Li is a former staff writer at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2019.
  • She joined Entertainment Weekly as an editorial intern in 2013; she became an editorial assistant in 2015, a correspondent in 2016, and was promoted to staff writer in 2018.
  • She was an editorial fellow at Wired magazine and The Atlantic in 2014 and 2015.

Experience

Shirley Li was an editorial intern at Entertainment Weekly in 2013. After two years as an editorial fellow at Wired magazine and The Atlantic, she rejoined Entertainment Weekly as an editorial assistant in 2015. She was promoted to correspondent in 2016 and staff writer in 2018. She left EW in 2019.

About Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly, a Dotdash Meredith brand, is an award-winning entertainment news organization launched in 1990 with the aim to delight and inform with smart and funny content that leaves the reader as the most knowledgable pop culture fanatic in the room. Want to know more about us? There's a link for that.

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