Daily News | Kelsey McKinney is building a (socialist) gossip empire from Queen Village
Tattooed and nose-ringed, McKinney exudes DSA-meets-early-aughts-blogger energy. She’s not interested in what she and Laughlin describe as the “cult of talent,” in which one creator is cast as a genius and everyone else as an assistant. Behind her desk is a vibrant painting by two self-taught Australian artists who paint at the same time on the same canvas, selling their work under the joint name“It doesn’t look like the work of two artists,” McKinney said.
“I have a blazer, I swear!” McKinney said as she greeted her fellow podcasters, already assembled on a couch, wearing suits. Her Amtrak was delayed and she had rushed from the station in green platform boots and multicolored floral trousers. She warned everyone not to hug her, she was too sweaty. “Are you going to Tribeca?” another podcast host asked her later, referring to the New York festival.McKinney grew up the daughter of an evangelical youth pastor in North Texas; her mother worked a variety of hourly jobs. In McKinney’s high school study Bible, Proverbs 26:20 was underlined and starred: “Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.”for The New York Times.
“They weren’t afraid to tell the grown-up man to f-- off, and they knew what was right, and they were going to go save the puppy from the well or whatever,” Laughlin, 31, said laughing. “Kelsey is that kind of girl.” Through stints at online media sites including Vox, Fusion, and Deadspin, a sports and culture blog originally owned by Gawker, McKinney mastered a certain pithy, extremely online voice. But she also witnessed the pitfalls of ill-informed venture capitalists taking a crack at media. As she saw it, they often ran good companies into the ground pursuing unrealistic scale and profit.
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