James Mercadante

Title: Content Update Editor

Education: The College of New Jersey

Location: New Jersey

Expertise: Female pop stars, early-2000s rom-coms, and high school comedies

James Mercadante has been a Content Update Editor for PEOPLE since November 2022.

James has worked for various entertainment and lifestyle publications and has had bylines on Entertainment Weekly, TV Insider, Modern Luxury Manhattan, Ocean Drive, Hamptons Magazine and Honeysuckle Magazine.

He earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English with a minor in journalism at The College of New Jersey.

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