By Chandra Turner
The best part of my role as Talent Fairy is that I get to talk to people constantly. I talk to folks who still work in traditional media and love it and want to ride it out. …
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How to Get an Agent When You’ve Never Published A Book Before
By Mary Kole
In magazine and website content creation, the editor-writer relationship is key. You’ve pitched, you’ve broken through—now you’re in a collaboration with the person who decides the content of the magazine or blog. Often, you bring them ideas. …
How Austen Tosone’s Magazine Background Landed her a Role at a Hot New Tech Startup
I’ve spent a lot of time interviewing people at the top of the food chain lately — CMOs, CCOs, CHROS. But I leave the C suite this week to chat with someone who in 10 years very well could be …
The Content Marketing Terms You Need to Know (Even if You Need to Fake it at First)
In this new tech world we live and work in, a lot of buzzwords get thrown around. But who can keep up with the never-ending flood of new industry terms and abbreviations? For people looking to make a career pivot,
How You Can Get the Money You Deserve Working in Media: Chatting With Cindy from Wager
By Chandra Turner
I made $24,000 in my first job as an editorial assistant at Good Housekeeping. At 25 (um, only three years later), I made $95,000 as a deputy editor at Cosmo. By the time I was 35, …
8 Digital Editors Who Will Inspire Your #CareerGoals
By Emily Weaver
I first realized I wanted to pursue a career in the editorial industry after taking a networking trip with my Ed2010 campus chapter about three years ago to New York City. I remember sitting at LaGuardia airport …
Live in NYC? Ed’s Hosting a Junior Editor Happy Hour Nov 13!
Want to network with professionals in the editorial biz but not sure where to start? Come to Ed’s first happy hour of the season and connect with recent grads and junior level journalists to share stories, advice and camaraderie on
… Former EA’s Share the Side Hustles That Let Them Pursue a Career in Media
By Ashley Oerman and Shaye DiPasquale
Chances are you aren’t expecting your editorial career to make bank. But you probably expect to at least be able to pay your rent. Well, hate to say that the math doesn’t work out …
The 10 Content Marketing Experts Who Are Shaping the Industry
By Shaye DiPasquale
By now you (and everyone else) know that content is king. Finally the business world has opened their eyes to what we editors have always known: Words and stories are powerful! Content is now one of the …
“Fashion is Not Something You Can Do Medium Rare” — Giovanna Battaglia
By Caroline Vazzana
For anyone whose ever scrolled through Instagram, or flipped through the pages of a glossy magazine, you have definitely seen Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert. The Italian fashion editor and style expert not only stands out as the queen …