freelance magazine writer

PAUL TULLIS

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

•Accomplished media professional with senior editorial and production experience in digital and glossy magazines, books, and radio

•Contributor to such marquee publications as The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Time, New York, Slate, Scientific American, and more

•Launched and ran the longform journalism product of Participant Media, one of the most respected names in documentary film, winning several awards MEDIA EXPERIENCE

Features Editor – TakePart (Los Angeles) 2013 2016

• Initiated long-form narrative journalism venture for a news website with appx. 6 million monthly unique visitors

• Conceived, researched, commissioned, and edited 3-to-5 features per month, each 2000-to-8000 words in length, on global health & development, economic opportunity, environment, education, sustainable markets, and other topics

• These articles have won awards from or been recognized by Columbia University School of Journalism, the American Society of Journalists and Authors; Excellence in Financial Journalism awards; Society of Environmental Journalists; Folio: magazine’s Eddie Awards; Assn. of Food Journalists; L.A. Press Club, and others.

• Worked closely with Editor-in-Chief to shape a strategy for long-form content on the site, including topics, voice, and complementary content esp. video

• Coordinated with staff for art treatment, social media strategy, and marketing of stories Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine (Los Angeles) 2013 2015

• Author of a 2015 feature profile; Sept. 2013 cover story; and features in Jan. 2013 and Oct. 2012, as well as shorter items, on environmental issues, criminal justice, medical science, and more

• Won the Society of Professional Journalists, New York City chapter, award for Best Magazine Profile of 2015

Freelance Writer (San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles) 1993 present

• Contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Time, Scientific American, Slate, Nature, NPR's “Morning Edition,” LA Times Magazine, New York, Fast Company, Wired, Bon Appétit, Town & Country, The New Yorker, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon, Los Angeles, Pacific Standard, Radar, McSweeney’s, McSweeneys.net, Mademoiselle, Psychology Today, N.Y. Daily News, Vibe, and others.

•Contributed to six anthologies, all from major publishers

“Marketplace” (Los Angeles) 2011

•Researched, reported, and wrote a 15,000-word online project about public education finance

Blogger (Los Angeles) 2009 2012

•Covering politics and policy at Huffington Post (2010-2012)

•Covering environmental issues at Change.org (Sept. 2010-Nov. 2010)

•Covering politics and policy for, True/Slant (April, 2009-June, 2010)

•Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish and NYTimes.com’s The Lede blog linked to my posts. Plenty magazine (New York, NY) Articles Editor, web editor 2008 2009

•Number-three editor at a bimonthly environmental-lifestyle magazine

•As editor of the magazine's website, Plentymag.com, was commissioning editor of a daily short feature and edited and managed a roster of blogs. Men’s Journal magazine (New York, NY) Articles Editor 2007 2008

•Top-level editor in a 25-person editorial department at the men’s monthly

•Oversaw all environmental coverage at the magazine, editing a monthly environmental column as well as features

•Wrote two features, including one that was picked up by the New York Daily News, Gawker, TVNewser, and Fox News, among others

Radar magazine (New York, NY) Articles Editor 2007

•Three-month assignment editing features and writing for the print product and website

•Radar was nominated for an ASME award for General Excellence (its only such recognition) for issues produced during my tenure. Seed magazine (New York, NY) Senior Editor 2005 2006

•Senior editor in a 13-person editorial department at science-culture magazine with a 192,000 circulation base

•Top-edited the entire 96-page magazine; wrote/selected nearly all display copy

•Conceived, solicited, edited, and re-wrote features and shorter front-of-book pieces

•Seed was nominated for general excellence in the 2007 National Magazine Awards (its only ASME nomination). It was also recognized for best science/technology coverage, and nominated for general excellence, in the 2006 Independent Press Awards (its only win). One of the articles I edited was included in the 2007 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton-Mifflin).

KCRW/PRI (Santa Monica, CA) Producer 2004

•Produced long- and short-form segments for daily radio current-affairs programs: “To the Point,” covering national and international news and heard by over 300,000 listeners daily; and “Which Way L.A the premier public-affairs program in Southern California

•Responsible for 2-to-5 segments per week; conceived and developed program ideas; researched topics; and pre-interviewed notable guests such as members of Congress, former presidential candidates, and a UN Under Secretary General

•The programs won multiple L.A. Press Club Awards in 2004, including Best News Bureau. Might Magazine (San Francisco, CA) Senior Editor 1993 1997

•Senior editor of the national independent general-interest bimonthly

•Might was named the 19th best magazine of all time by a panel of industry experts; one of Library Journal’s Ten Best Magazines for 1994; and was the only dual nominee in the 1997 Independent Press Awards.

•Wrote and edited cover stories; conceived, edited and assigned features and reviews EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) BA in History 1992

•Honor Society invitee

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