Jolene Creighton (born 1985) is an American media executive, entrepreneur, and consultant.[1] She was the founding editor-in-chief of the science news site Futurism.[2] In 2017, Creighton co-founded Gravity Products, a subsidiary of Futurism. The company's inaugural product, the Gravity Blanket, pioneered the weighted blanket movement.[3][4] Creighton also served as editor-in-chief of the science and technology news site Interesting Engineering[5] and executive editor at the Web3 media publication NFTnow.[6][7]
In 2014, Creighton’s pit bull achieved viral fame after she uploaded a video of the dog barking apprehensively at a pineapple.[10][11] After the video went viral, Creighton noted that the dog was a stray and used the story to advocate for spaying, neutering, and adoption in press. Creighton said, "Ultimately, that night I found Stella, she wasn't alone. Not really. There are a million more animals out there who still need someone. In fact, there's more than a million."[12]
Career
Creighton began her career as an instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she taught courses on writing and communication.[1] In 2012, she co-founded the science news site From Quarks to Quasars, which was acquired by Futurism in 2015.[13][14] Creighton left academia and fully transitioned to journalism later in 2015, when she helped launch Futurism and joined the team as the founding editor-in-chief. The publication secured an average of 20 million monthly readers and 100 million monthly video views by April 2017.[14]
In April 2017, Creighton helped launch the Gravity Blanket with Futurism and raised more than $4.7 million dollars in crowdfunding. The product was ultimately credited with launching the weighted blanket movement, and was eventually spun off into a Futurism subsidiary, Gravity Products.[15][16]
Futurism was acquired by Singularity University in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.[17] In December of 2020, Interesting Engineering announced that Creighton would be joining as editor-in-chief.[18] In February of 2021, Gravity Products was acquired for an undisclosed sum to Win Brands Group.[19] The following year, Creighton left Interesting Engineering and joined nft now as executive editor.[6]
↑ Flanagan, Robin, L (April 10, 2017). "Founding Futurism". Keuka College. Archived from the original on October 19, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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