Ontranese McAfee
Nashville, Tenn.
Ontranese McAfee is a Nashville-based reporter for The Click. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in history from Belmont University. She’s currently pursuing her master’s in journalism at NYU. Ontranese interned at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. She hosted a music podcast on Spotify from 2021-2023 that focused on pop culture, artist profiles, and album reviews.
May 27, 2026
The Vanishing Teen Reader
Over the course of two decades, the teen magazine has quietly disappeared, replaced with digital imitators. One by one, the anchor publications of girlhood disappeared from newsstands. CosmoGirl! folded in 2008. Teen People ended its print run two years earlier. Elle Girl shut down its U.S. edition. Seventeen reduced its print presence to a handful of special issues before going mostly digital. Rookie, the teen magazine built by a teen, shut down in 2018. By the late 2010s, Teen Vogue had also gone digital-only, later folded deeper into the larger Vogue brand in 2025.
December 20, 2025
When the Internet Turns on Its Storytellers
Digital Journalist Meghann Cuniff Discusses Navigating Online Visibility
May 20, 2025
Forza Is the Studio. Sydney Dumler Is the Brand.
Sydney Dumler created the Pilates studio of many people’s dreams. Women walk around in Forza sweatshirts and biker shorts, a la Princess Diana. SunLife Organics offers a Matcha, coconut sorbet, and raspberry smoothie called “Expensive,” which shares a name with Forza’s signature candle scent.
February 22, 2025
Navigating Nashville’s Future Through Promises and Progress
“People are excited about a 24-hour bus system. They’re excited about better connectivity, being able to get from point A to point B,” said Nia Smith, the community design coordinator at Nashville's Civic Design Center.