Jim Malec | |
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Occupation(s) | Journalist, music critic |
Jim Malec is an American journalist and pop music critic known for writing about country music. [1] Malec attended State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, where he worked as an editor for the college's student newspaper and was involved in a censorship dispute regarding student free speech rights. [2] He was named "Best Local Blogger About Country Music" by the Nashville Scene in 2009, with the paper commenting that he is "rough on country music in the way that only a person who loves and thinks deeply about an art form can be." [1] Malec's work has appeared in American Songwriter, [3] Slant Magazine, [4] Westword [5] and other outlets, and he is a contributor to the Nashville Scene's annual country music critics poll. [6] [7]
Malec is noteworthy for his coverage of Taylor Swift in the early stages of her career, referring to her as "a superstar in the making" in 2007. [8] His 2011 article "Taylor Swift: The Garden In The Machine" [9] chronicles Swift's move to Nashville and her integration into the Nashville songwriting community.