Jaclyn Trop spends her free time googling "how to be badass" and then worries whether badass is one word or two.
She once spent $45 on a sparkly wife-beater at a Justin Timberlake concert because it said ‘I heart JT.’ Jaclyn has never tried mustard because it was not allowed in her childhood home. She hates being called Jackie.
It’s always been Jaclyn’s dream to sit on an ice cream cake; she once had the exquisite pleasure of sitting on a day-old Stop & Shop bakery cake, thanks to her best friend.
Jaclyn is a business reporter for The Detroit News, where she covers ground zero of the recession, as well as the retail and gaming industries and Michigan’s largest public and private firms. She holds a master’s degree in new media journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from Boston University.
Her work has been cited by Bloomberg News, Rush Limbaugh, Drudge Report and Fox News. She is an occasional guest on The Tony Conley Morning Show on WILS-AM in Lansing. Jaclyn was honored as the Small Business Association of Michigan's 2011 Communicator of the Year.
Hailing from Greenwich, Conn., Jaclyn has also lived in New York City, Boston, London, and Sydney. Jaclyn enjoys disco, golf, the Detroit Lions, tennis, skiing and practicing empathy. She is a PADI-certified advanced open water diver. Her favorite country is Iceland.
Jaclyn reviews books for several magazines, her favorite movie is Good Burger, and she is always serious.