Between 1997 and 2015 Bried worked at
Condé Nast as an editor at
Glamour and then editor-at-large at
Self. She was also a writer and editor for
Golf for Women,
Women’s Health and
Good Housekeeping. Bried decided to create Kazoo magazine in 2016 in response to a shopping trip with her 5-year old daughter, where the covers of the girls’ magazines they looked at “all had dolls, lip gloss and princesses on them; they all had articles about ‘how to get pretty hair, how to have good manners’". In creating a print-only magazine, Bried saw the “magazine as an opportunity to politicize girls at a critical moment in their lives, to ‘shore up their foundation’ of empowerment before the pressures of patriarchy set in during adolescence.” Bried is the only full-time staff member of the magazine, she writes everything except the fiction. On behalf of Kazoo she has appeared on
Today, Better TV and
NPR.
Kickstarter campaign Bried launched a
Kickstarter campaign in March 2016, with the aim of raising US$150,000. Two of Bried’s friends, both filmmakers, made a launch video that “went viral” and
Neil Gaiman and
Roxane Gay tweeted about it. Within 30 days the campaign had raised $171,215 from 3,000 people. At that point, it was the highest funded journalism campaign on Kickstarter (this record has since been superseded). Almost one third of the donations came from first-time backers. ==Publications==