On April 19th, the Boston chapter of Ed2010 visited Hearst and Meredith in NYC for a magazine publishing-packed day. Between touring Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Parents, Boston Edsters were able to fill their notebooks with a slew of power-packed tips along with business cards.
Movie awards season may be winding down, but Ed has an award of its own to share. And the Ed City Chapter of the Year is… drumroll please…Boston!
On October 12th, Ed’s Boston chapter took a field trip—the first of its kind in Ed history—for a whirlwind afternoon of visiting the Hearst Tower and meeting with editors from magazines like Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook. The trip was the brainchild of Boston City Chapter hostess Courtney McClellan, an assistant editor at the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. “I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of people who showed interest in visiting,” says McClellan, who was joined by a diverse group of 10 Edsters, including freelancers, studen
Meet Your Hostess
Corinna VanGerwen is a senior editor at Canada’s leading home decor magazine, Style At Home, for which she also writes a technology column and new tech blog called “Tech Style.”
When Corinna isn’t busy writing and editing, she finds time to manage her personal blog titled “Dream Job TK.”
How did you and Ed meet?
My high school friend, Kim Shiffman, was the original Toronto host. I came to her first event for moral support and have been hooked ever since.
Meet your hostess
Jessica Daynor got her start as a fashion intern at Marie Claire. After the internship, she was offered a job but turned it down — “New York is one of my favorite places in the world, but I knew I’d be broke, overworked, and not really doing what I loved,” she says. Now, she’s the managing editor of DRAFT magazine, a bi-monthly beer publication.
When she’s not writing or editing, Jessica can be found traveling, renovating her house, cooking, watching bad TV, or reading one of the 20+ magazines that she gets each month!
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Whitney Friedlander broke into magazines as an intern at Los Angeles in 2002 after getting her degree in journalism. Now she keeps busy as the city editor for Citysearch’s L.A. Web site and a freelance researcher for Westways magazine, a AAA publication.
When Whitney isn’t working (or networking), she can be found exploring the local food scene, planning her next and “sometimes fictitious” travel adventure, researching popular culture, or snacking on Jelly Bellies.
How did you and Ed meet?
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Eric Van Osten majored in journalism, public relations, and advertising at Temple University in Philadelphia and currently works at Lyons Media, where he’s editor-in-chief of the niche microchip publication, RFID Product News, and associate editor of the trade publication, Package Design Magazine. He also volunteers as the web content editor for the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society, plays in a new wave band called Umlaut, and just launched the Ed2010 Philadelphia city chapter. Phew! Somehow, he found the time to chat with Ed:
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Ruksana Hussain is currently the managing editor at GlobalGlam magazine. She has a background in corporate communications and editorial spanning 10 years. Now an independent communications professional, her work has been published in several online and print publications in Atlanta. Apart from writing, Ruksana manages her Fair Trade gift business and has made it a point to travel to at least one city in the United States every month. A social media enthusiast, avid networker, and word-of-mouth believer, she is a member of the IABC and MAGS Atlanta chapters as well as the Lady Rogue Business Network and Crave Atlanta. Ruksana is a finalist for a 2013 Award of Excellence by the Atlanta Press Club in the Print non-daily category for her work with Atlanta’s Khabar magazine.
You can reach her on atlanta@ed2010.com
As Flying Kite’s Development News Editor, Dan is responsible for staying on top of everything important that’s going on in the commercial real estate and development industries. He follows (and reports on) topics like public transportation and zoning, and occasionally contributes to the magazine’s other sections, which generally involve local entrepreneurship and economic growth issues.
Contact Dan at philadelphia@ed2010.com
Rebecca’s lived her entire life in Texas with the exception of summer of 2007 spent in New York on an ASME internship with Women’s Health. She thought about heading back after graduating from the University of Texas in December ‘07, but family, a boyfirend and the warm wather kept her in Austin. After intern stints at several Austin mags during college, she’s now settled into a job as assistant editor at The Alcalde, the Texas Exes alumni magazine. She’s looking forward to getting to know editors, current and future, across the city. Drop her a line at austin@ed2010.com.
