Adam Ragusea

Adam Ragusea is a YouTuber who creates videos about food recipes, science, and culinary culture. He was previously a professor of journalism at Mercer University, but quit his job in 2020 after noticing he earned more money as a Youtuber.

Adam Ragusea
Personal information
Born (1982-03-22) March 22, 1982
Pennsylvania, USA[1]
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor of journalism, YouTuber.
Websitewww.adamragusea.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2010-present
GenreCooking, science journalism
Subscribers909,000
Total views144.8 million
100,000 subscribers 2019
Updated August 8, 2020

Personal Life

Ragusea grew up in central Pennsylvania. As a child, he visited nearby Hersheypark each summer which developed his fondness for Hershey chocolate. [2] Currently, Ragusea lives in Macon, Georgia with his wife, novelist Lauren Morrill and their two kids.[3]

Career

Journalism

Adam Ragusea was a journalist in residence at Mercer University until February 2020, when he scheduled to retire.[4][5] Ragusea taught introductory and advanced journalism, and media production classes while still a professor at Mercer.[6]

YouTube

Ragusea created his YouTube channel on February 12, 2010, and his first videos were recipes for foods that he made for the intention of sharing with his friends.[7] His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.[8] In addition to this, he cites SpongeBob SquarePants as an influence on his style of comedy, claiming that "it's edgy, but fundamentally it's still just a beam of bright sunshine."[9]

gollark: I was envisioning a somewhat more IRC-like thing where you commune directly with each server you want to join.
gollark: That would possibly expose your IP to it which might be bad.
gollark: How should profile pictures work? Presumably you'd want them globally set, so they'd be fetched from your identity server, but would each server you chat in have to proxy them or something?
gollark: The actual messaging features are in a different spec to their bizarre XML encapsulation formats.
gollark: Indeed. I think we may be slightly reinventing XMPP, but XMPP is beeoid due to it being overly "extensible".

References
  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J44svaQc5WY&ab_channel=AdamRagusea
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J44svaQc5WY&ab_channel=AdamRagusea
  3. https://www.adamragusea.com/about
  4. "How Adam Ragusea's journalism background helps him in his YouTube career". YouTube. Feb 12, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  5. Janani P. Rammohan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Food videos bring Mercer professor millions of views". ajc. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  6. "The CCJ Team - Mercer University". Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  7. "Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  8. "He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  9. "The professor that went viral". Jul 2, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
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