Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, addressed a packed audience at the Journalism School. Celebrating its fifth anniversary in May, the Huff Post started out with 500 bloggers. Today, it has over 3,000. It is a news site and blog that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.Huffington sees journalism as having a “hybrid future,” where the best of new media and the best of traditional...
Ronald Henkoff '77, executive editor of Bloomberg News, has been editor of Bloomberg Markets magazine, the largest monthly magazine for financial professionals in the world, since 1999. Henkoff has been a business journalist for 29 years, working at Fortune magazine and at Newsweek as its European economics editor. He is a graduate of Carleton College, the J-School and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Peggy Northrop became editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest in November 2007. Under her leadership in 2009, Reader’s Digest won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors — the industry’s highest honor and the first win in the magazine’s history. In June 2009, Northrop was named global editor-in-chief, with editorial responsibility for 50 international Reader’s Digest editions published in 22 languages.
Adam Pitluk '04 is the executive editor of American Way and Celebrated Living magazines, the in-flight and first class magazines of American Airlines. Prior to joining American Way, Pitluk was a reporter for Time magazine for seven years. He also reported celebrity news for People. Pitluk is the former senior editor of Spirit magazine, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines, and the former features editor of Boys’ Life magazine.
Chris Dixon of New York Magazine speaks with Vicor Navasky. The art director discussed how art and text work together in magazine format. Prior to his tenure at New York, Dixon was art director of the multi-award winning Adbusters, where he was responsible for the re-design and conceptual development of the magazine. He has also worked at the New York Times Magazine as editorial designer and through his own firm, Studio Plural, whose projects have included creating a new international design i...
David Remnick speaks with Victor Navasky
Gaines’ storied editorial career has included stints as managing editor of the three top Time‐Life magazines: People, TIME and Life. After serving as managing editor of People, he took on the dual role of Life editor and publisher — the first time anyone simultaneously held both positions at Time, Inc. After spending eight years as a full‐time book author, Gaines has rekindled his passion for storytelling and his ambition to provide a full sensory experience to an audience in his role as edito...
