For 15 years she wrote and edited the pop-culture blog Pop Candy for USA Today. She has written for a variety of publications including Slate, Mental Floss, The Hollywood Reporter and ETonline, and she has provided pop-culture commentary on MSNBC, VH1, BBC America, Fuse, E!, NPR and other outlets. In 2015 Whitney relocated from New York City to Murfreesboro, where she serves as the Journalist in Residence at Middle Tennessee State University.