Nell Geraets
Nell Geraets is a culture and lifestyle journalist at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, covering entertainment and everyday life across both mastheads. Her reporting spans pop music and celebrity culture alongside streaming television and online communities. She also writes extensively about sex, relationships and everyday wellbeing, including sexual health and accessible fashion for neurodivergent people.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding
Geraets’ feature on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding focuses on the intersection of pop superstardom, NFL celebrity and fan speculation, using the couple’s rumoured Madison Square Garden celebrations as a lens on modern fandom.
She threads together reports from celebrity outlets, mainstream news organisations and law enforcement briefings to map what is confirmed, what is plausible and what remains pure conjecture around the event. The piece details permits requested near Madison Square Garden, security plans that reportedly involve the FBI, and an expansive guest list of musicians, actors and long‑time collaborators to show how a single wedding becomes a major cultural moment.
By following the timeline from engagement to rehearsal dinner and contrasting official information with the swirl of online rumours, she treats the wedding as a live case study in how contemporary culture processes a pop icon’s private life.
Netflix thrillers and webcomics
Beyond music, Geraets writes critically about streaming television, including a piece on the Netflix thriller You that examines how the series persuades audiences to root for a serial killer before turning the moral spotlight back on the viewer. In that coverage she connects the show’s romance‑thriller framing with broader questions about why audiences are drawn to charismatic monsters and what that says about modern storytelling.
She also profiles early‑2000s webcomic creators such as Cyanide & Happiness, explaining how they have kept their work alive and relevant in an internet ecosystem now dominated by TikTok and constantly shifting online humour. That story situates long‑running webcomics within the wider economy of digital content, highlighting the grind of feeding “the non‑stop beast that is the internet” while maintaining a distinct voice.
Together, these pieces show her interest in how niche or edgy entertainment survives and evolves as platforms, algorithms and audience expectations change.
Libido, relationships and sensory-friendly style
Geraets’ work on sex and relationships includes a deep dive into libido, where she frames desire as something that naturally waxes and wanes over the course of a life rather than a fixed benchmark to be met. She uses interviews with experts to break down the idea of “normal” desire, emphasising open conversation and practical knowledge over stigma or performance.
In parallel, she reports on sensory‑friendly clothing for neurodivergent people who struggle with tags, tight waistbands and other everyday discomforts, showing how fashion can become more accessible when designers consider sensory needs. That piece treats clothing choices as part of broader wellbeing, linking style to comfort, dignity and independence rather than surface aesthetics alone.
Across these stories, she brings the same reported, service‑oriented approach to intimate subjects and daily decisions, making complex emotional and physical experiences feel straightforward and navigable.
Social justice and scam stories
Geraets has a background in freelance social justice and culture reporting, with work that ranges across women’s rights, racial politics, identity, healthcare and immigration policy. Her profile notes a particular interest in audio and video journalism, especially projects that use multimedia formats to explore stories with socio‑cultural significance.
That interest carries through to her role in an episode on financial scams, where she reports on an HSBC investment scam and examines the shame many victims feel after being deceived. In that audio piece she focuses on how people process the emotional fallout, learn to talk about what happened and ultimately move past the experience, tying individual stories to the broader rise in elaborate financial scams.
This strand of her work adds a harder‑edged, public‑interest dimension to a portfolio otherwise rooted in culture and lifestyle, showing she can move from pop fandoms and streaming thrillers to social justice and consumer protection without losing clarity or empathy.
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Abby Webster
Abby Webster zeroes in on the storytelling side of contemporary pop, writing for Billboard about how songs build worlds around K-pop groups, fictional pop stars and ambitious soundtracks. She covers K-pop projects through close, song-by-song features, like her track-by-track piece with SEVENTEEN’s Vernon and The 8 on their EP ‘V8,’ and fan-centered lists such as “7 Best Moments from BTS’ Long-Awaited Return.” She treats soundtracks and fictional acts with the same rigor, mapping the inspirations behind “The Vampire Lestat” soundtrack and profiling in-universe groups like HUNTR/X and Saja Boys as if they were chart acts. Through Chart Beat stories on projects like “KPop Demon Hunters,” she connects these releases to industry strategy, global fandom, and the business systems that turn pop narratives into durable IP.
Alex Suskind
Alex Suskind is a freelance writer and editor who covers music with concise news stories and curated release lists. He focuses on new songs, album roundups, and archival access, from Carly Rae Jepsen’s “On Wires” to Neil Young opening his full catalog to residents of Greenland. His reporting stays close to the release cycle and foregrounds the core hook of each story. He has written for Pitchfork and has freelance work in Vulture, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. He also covers broader arts and culture, but his music beat is built around what is newly out now or newly available.
Ali Shutler
Ali Shutler links chart pop, alternative music and fan culture with the ways songs move through festivals, streaming platforms and games. He is a freelance culture journalist specialising in music, writing news and features for NME and other music and culture titles. He covers breakout chart acts, legacy artists whose catalogues are resurfacing, and how audiences rediscover songs via TikTok, streaming or in‑game soundtracks. His reporting on streaming-era pop and live festival moments tracks virality, catalog access and fan behaviour as part of the story of a track. He also examines music, gaming and visual art crossovers, treating game soundtracks and artist-led campaigns as part of a wider cultural map. Alongside this, he profiles emerging chart artists for outlets including The Telegraph, Vice, The Independent, Dork and Upset, focusing on early-career trajectories and fan culture.
Annette Sharp
Annette Sharp is a veteran gossip and entertainment columnist known for direct, opinion-led coverage of celebrity power struggles and reputational crises across television and the music industry. She now writes high-profile columns for the masthead, after a decade on a well-read gossip column and a move to News Corp in 2008. Her real beat is the friction between public image and behind-the-scenes behaviour on flagship TV programs, including breakfast shows, reality formats and other long-running franchises. She focuses on who drives conflicts, who is exposed and who benefits, using ratings history, production decisions and industry mechanics as context. Sharp covers on-air personalities, executives, advisers and musicians, treating television and music as workplaces with competing egos, contracts and alliances, and blending reporting, media commentary and critique in a narrative column format.