Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn is a Senior Reporter at Business Insider with more than six years of experience in the lifestyle space.
At Business Insider, Samantha's coverage focuses on weddings, style, the royal family, and home improvement. Her work includes real wedding stories, timely articles on celebrity fashion, live coverage of award shows and pageants, and expert advice on interior design. Samantha also loves reporting on celebrities on her beats, from the wedding designer Hayley Paige to Chip and Joanna Gaines.
Samantha appeared on Scripps News and CBS in 2022 as a result of her coverage of the royal family, and in 2023, she won an Anthem Award for her work on Business Insider's package "Better Me."
Samantha received her B.A. in English from Birmingham-Southern College in 2017, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She later earned her M.S. in Publishing from New York University in 2019. Samantha was previously a staff writer at Romper, and her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Mic, and Oprah.com. Today, Samantha lives in New York.
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Weddings, celebrity style, the royal family, interior design, and HGTV stars and shows.
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