Mark A. Newman's Page

Title:

Editor in Chief/Editorial Director

Company:

Southern Breeze magazine

Company Website:

http://www.southernbreeze.com

Media Type:

Publishing

Media Realm:

Consumer Media, City & Regional

Home Region:

South

Past Companies & Brands

Primedia/Penton, VNU/Nielsen, not-for-profit realm, association publishing...the list goes on

I'm Looking For:

Friends, Networking, Jobs

Professional Background: (Resume)

Relevant Skills & Abilities
In over a dozen years in the publishing industry, I’ve worked at a variety of publications covering an even wider variety of topics, from nuclear medicine and lighting design to live theater and travel & lifestyle. Below are the relevant tasks that I undertook in managing these publications.
Publishing & Editorial
• Oversee publication production from concept to final product
• Ensure tone, content, and overall editorial direction
• Write articles, columns, feature stories, news stories, web stories, blogs, etc.
• Edit content for style, voice, tone, etc. as per publication standards
• Rewrite articles for style, relevance, and suitability
• Cultivate story ideas as well as authors
• Stay abreast of trends pertinent to publication’s audience and industry
• Heavily involved in copy editing/proofing from beginning to end

Management Experience (of both people and projects)
• Manage editorial and art department employees
• Oversee entire publications/editorial/art departments
• Coordinate freelance writers and photographers (and make sure they got paid)
• Concurrently oversee and coordinate up to 40 publications annually
• Institute redesigns at established magazines
• Maintain and plan editorial departmental budgets

Web Experience
• Upload and/or post stories to magazine web sites on a daily basis
• Involved in the design and redesign publication web sites
• Experienced in writing stories for electronic format
• Launched a Southern Breeze electronic newsletter with all original editorial
• Very familiar with a variety of website tools

Other Relevant Experience
• Experience working in trade, B-to-B, not-for-profit, and consumer realms
• Speak at industry functions on behalf of publications
• Quoted in the media as an industry expert
• Conduct roundtables and seminars at professional events


Work Experience
Southern Breeze/Compass Marketing Gulf Shores, AL
Editor, 2006 – present
Southern Breeze is a glossy, very high-end travel and lifestyle publication that covers the Gulf Coast. Also serve as Editor/Editorial Director for Compass Marketing’s 40+ other annual publications in the travel arena including the Alabama Vacation Guide, Mississippi Travel Guide, Coast Living, Emerald Coast Vacation Guide, and many more.

Entertainment Design/Lighting Dimensions/SRO/Live Design New York, NY
Managing Editor, 2004 – 2006
These publications were geared to designers, suppliers, and other live design professionals. A thorough knowledge of the industry as well as the technical components of production was required. Loving theatre didn’t hurt.
Live Design was born when Entertainment Design, SRO, and Lighting Dimensions merged into a single monthly magazine.

The New York Enterprise Report New York, NY
Managing Editor, 2003 – 2004
Served as founding Managing Editor for this startup that began life as a website, which eventually went to a traditional format. It is still going strong.

Facilities Design & Management New York, NY
Managing Editor, 2001 – 2003
Started at FDM—a monthly trade publication about commercial buildings, facilities management, and real estate—two months prior to 9/11. Hit the ground running to report and write about the attacks. I was rewarded with a 2003 Jesse H. Neal Award for Outstanding Business Journalism.

Reputation Management New York, NY
Editor, 2000 -- 2001
Took over the reigns of this well respected monthly public relations journal and spearheaded a totally new redesign, updating the publication’s staid look into a more contemporary, glossy feel.

Lighting Design & Application New York, NY
Editor, 1996 – 2000
Named Editor after eight months as Associate Editor at this monthly trade magazine published by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. My goal was to turn it into more of a design magazine, which I did, resulting in a 25% minimum advertising revenue increase per issue.

International Medical News Group Rockville, MD
Staff Reporter, 1995 – 1996
Wrote for a chain of physician newspapers which required a fairly in depth understanding of medical issues in a variety of disciplines.

Society of Nuclear Medicine New York, NY
Executive Editor, 1992 – 1995
Served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology and the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, considered “the Cadillac of medical journals.” This was where I earned my stripes in project management and especially copy editing and proofreading because patient’s lives depended on accuracy.

Previous Experience: Script writer/coordinator for the Attitudes talk show on Lifetime; box office manager at an off-Broadway theatre; newspaper reporter and editor; summer marketing intern at the Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Publications: Aside from the magazines where I was employed, my work has appeared in Men’s Fitness, Folio:, Billboard, New York Construction News, Architectural Lighting, OUT, Convenience Store People, Starting Line, Alabama Alumni Magazine, Kitchen & Bath Business, Columbus C.E.O., MetroSource, Marching Bands & Corps, Delta SKY, Architecture, and many more.

Education
University of Alabama: 1986, BA in Communications
Major in public relations, minor in management
University of Alabama: 1987, 1988, Post-graduate study in editorial, public relations, management, and journalism.

References, clips, publication samples, and salary requirements furnished upon request.

Personal Interests

Travel, Music, Movies, Theater, Politics. I'm a Neil Diamond fan...don't judge me!

Education:

University of Alabama: 1986, BA in Communications

Other Web Profile URL or Personal Web Site

http://myspace.com/markanthonynewman

Relationship Status:

Single