Julian Rizzo-Smith

Julian Rizzo-Smith is an Afternoon & Nights Writer at PEDESTRIAN.TV. He has been writing for over five years, and has had past work appear in publications from IGN and Junkee to SBS PopAsia and ELLE Australia. In 2017 and 2018, he was nominated for the Alicia Camphuisen Best New Journalist award at the ACS IT Journalism Awards. Julian has a strong background in covering pop and internet culture, queerness, identity, politics, fashion, and the intersection between those topics. Julian’s past work has seen him interview the likes of Rina Sawayama, Millie Bobby Brown, Beabadoobee, Henry Cavill, Shinichiro Watanabe, and G-Flip. Having appeared and hosted panels at Oz Comic Con, SMASH! and PAX Australia, Julian’s work has also led him to appear in the BBC, on ABC’s Stop Everything!, and as an expert opinion in a viral YouTube Reacts video. You can contact Julian via any of the channels below.