Editors, Sign in and Introduce Yourself

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Permalink Reply by Doug Damerst on June 10, 2008 at 9:56am

Hello... Thirty-five years of editing and I'm still consumed with how to serve readers better, how to tell stories better. I love it, and now I especially like to noodle on publishing models for engaging audiences via Internet. Proactive media, like e-newsletters, interest me the most for their simplicity and linking. How about you?

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Permalink Reply by Erika Geiss on June 15, 2008 at 1:39pm

Hi, I'm Erika Geiss, and I've been editing since graduate school in the '90s. I work as a freelance editor and I'm the editor-in-chief of a digital edition. Looking forward to meeting other editors, talking about digital editions and other editing issues of e-media/digital media, learning from, sharing and connecting with everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on June 16, 2008 at 6:27pm

Hello.. I am the Managing Editor for the Mequoda Daily. Journalism isn't my backround (I have a BA in Interactive Media Design), but with my job, I evolved into the role (luckily I have a few editorial bones in my body) and I love it :) I'm looking forward to discussing email newsletters, journalism vs. copywriting (how to merge the two), and just in general looking to network with other editors out there.

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Permalink Reply by Arielle Emmett on November 6, 2008 at 9:43pm

Hello Amanda,

I interviewed you last month for a story on social media that is scheduled to appear in AJR. I'm interested in networking more with editors for my research in social media -- and to do some continued free lance. Thanks again for speaking with me.

Arielle Emmett
Member, American Society of Journalists & Authors
Merrill fellow, Philip Merrill College of Journalism,
University of Maryland College Par

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Permalink Reply by Nancy B on June 23, 2008 at 8:00pm

Hello there... I am an editor for several agriculture publications in the heart of potato country... Idaho. Yes, it is quite rural and perhaps a little slower out here than in the big city publishing locations... and it is really quite entertaining to desribe my editorial work in potatoes, sugarbeets and turf to those unsuspecting participants engaged in career discussions here at home and out on travel... It can be a challenge to make ag related production interesting, but it can be done! I look forward to hearing all sorts of ideas from you fellow editors out there...!

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Permalink Reply by Terri Stone on June 25, 2008 at 6:22pm

Hello, colleagues! For the last three years, I've been editor in chief of CreativePro.com, a daily Web site for designers and photographers, and of a spin-off from that site, a bi-monthly PDF publication called InDesign Magazine. Before that, I was an editor at Macworld and Publish magazines, and before that I was an editor at the University of Illinois' College of Agriculture. (Nancy B, I've shared your pain.)

A tiny staff puts out CreativePro.com/InDesign Magazine, so one topic I'm hoping to gain insight into is how to manage with minimal resources.

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Permalink Reply by Katy Ryan on June 27, 2008 at 11:56pm

Hi all! I'm the editor for three regional magazines in the Kansas City area: LV Mag (Leavenworth County), The Dot (Wyandotte County) and Compass, a monthly entertainment/leisure/dining pub that serves the aforementioned counties and a few other surrounding towns. In my increasingly limited spare time, I freelance and blog.
Topics of interest include maintaining quality with a minimal budget, overcoming advertising difficulties and branding. Surprisingly, the Kansas City magazine market is becoming quite crowded, and my "babies" and I are newbies on the block -- celebrating one year this September!
Looking forward to chatting with all of you. Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Tim Dees on June 30, 2008 at 3:43am

If you already read my entry on the eMedia Vets thread, you can skip this. It's virtually the same.

On August 1 I will have been an editor for three years, or at least getting paid for it. Dave Iannone hired me to be the first editor-in-chief of Officer.com when he was its publisher and the VP of interactive whatevers at Cygnus Business Media. I stayed at Cygnus until the end of 2007, when I was lured away by Jeff Berend and Elsevier to stand up LawOfficer.com, the online component of their Law Officer magazine. Prior to this, I was the technology editor (a glorified freelancer) for Law and Order magazine for eight years, where I got to know several of the people that are now core personnel at Law Officer.

I was a cop in and around Reno, Nevada for 15 years, and then taught criminal justice at various colleges around the country for eight years. I work from my home in SE Washington state, which is nothing remotely like Seattle and those other wet, expensive, trendy places west of the Cascades.

I think e-media is a great place to be right now, as print is suffering increasing ills of rising production and shipping costs. Still, everyone is struggling for ad buys, and there seem to be more advertising vehicles with each passing day, all making the pieces of the pie a bit smaller.

I like to work on what I call the "Field of Dreams" model: if you build it, they will come. Quality will always prevail in the end. Readers will go to where they can find the best and most useful content. Find good writers, cultivate them and encourage their loyalty, use the immediacy of the web to target current issues, and above all, build a community. Of the lessons learned at Officer.com, that one is probably the most valuable.

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Permalink Reply by Janet Blake on July 4, 2008 at 12:08pm

Hello to all! Originally from Stamford, Conn., I now live with my family in Crestwood, Ky., outside of Louisville. We moved here in 2001.

I have been freelancing for magazines since 1997, after an early career at The Associated Press and as an assistant city editor for a small Connecticut newspaper. I am currently the copy editor for The WAG in Westchester County, N.Y., and Sustainability: The Journal of Record, two Mary Ann Liebert publications. I write a monthly column on volunteering for Today's Woman, a Louisville woman's magazine. I've worked for Cowles Media (Vegeterian Times, Country Journal, Natural Remedies), Atkins Nutritionals (Web site, books, magazine) and Trader's Library (biz books). I recently returned to The Associated Press as a part-time Night Breaking News Supervisor. For two years, I also worked as a librarian, honing my research skills. I have two children.

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Permalink Reply by Christine Schwerin on July 5, 2008 at 7:21am

Hello...I'm an editor for Michigan History magazine and Michigan History for Kids magazine. I live in (obviously) Michigan but have also lived in a few other states (Montanta, Georgia and hopefully someday North Carolina). This year will be a busy one for us as we are redesigning one magazine and revamping the website for the other magazine. Of course we face the constant challenge of how to make history interesting and relevent to 2008. I love technology and am working on ways to incorporate new media into what we do. It's exciting to see all the changes in media over the past ten years!

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Permalink Reply by Marja Aarnipuro on July 9, 2008 at 4:18am

Hi, I´m Marja Aarnipuro from Finland, 48 years of age and editor in chief for the last 10 years in four different magazines in the same publishing house called A-lehdet Oy, the third biggest magazine publisher in Finland. I have worked as a journalist for almost 30 years now and now I´m the editor in chief of a magazine called Jade, target group "adult women" (40+). In the States I believe More would be in the same genre. In Jade we have a small staff (me, art director, managing editor and two sub editors). We publish 10 issues per year and buy quite a lot of the material from free lance journalists. I´m interested to get to know collagues from other countries and I´d like to compare our work and maybe share best practices.

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Permalink Reply by Nicole Wisniewski on July 10, 2008 at 8:41am

Hello! I'm the deputy editor of a b-to-b national landscape publication (Lawn & Landscape) based in the Cleveland, Ohio area. I've been at the magazine 10 years this month. This year, we just expanded our Web site and started a .tv site to further promote reader interaction and social networking. With print deadlines and the rise of regular .coms and now .tvs, we're trying to figure out how to fit it all in and what percent of our time we should be dedicating to each one. Any insight or experience anyone has to offer would be greatly appreciated!

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