Content Strategy & Editorial Management

Are you trying to figure out how to cover a new area, tackle a new topic or just improve the bang for your buck for your day-to-day content?

I’m here to help.

Having run newsrooms and built teams for more than 8 years, I’m well versed in analyzing competitive properties, finding a strong position, and gearing up a team to hit the ground running.

As a managing editor I can:

  • Workshop content ideas with stakeholders
  • Assign and manage freelance writers
  • Developmental and structural editing to improve copy
  • Line edit to ensure content follows the style and editorial guidelines of the publication

Mother’s Fatty Diet Makes Baby Monkeys Afraid of Mr. Potato Head

Mother’s Fatty Diet Makes Baby Monkeys Afraid of Mr. Potato Head

Discover, November 19 2010.

What monkey mothers eat has a large impact on how skittish their offspring act in stressful situations like stranger danger–or the presence of a Mr. Potato Head in their cage. According to researchers, even normal monkeys find the toy’s large eyes to..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Discover magazine, News Article, Psychology & Behavior
Is This the Peak of Peak Panic? Peak Chocolate, Peak Maple Syrup, & More

Is This the Peak of Peak Panic? Peak Chocolate, Peak Maple Syrup, & More

Discover, November 19 2010.

PEAK CHOCOLATE

Chocoholics, be afraid. Be very afraid. Peak chocolate is coming.

Soon, humanity’s appetite for chocolate will increase to the point where there just isn’t enough chocolate in the world to sustain it. Researchers and chocolatiers..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Climate & Environment, Discover magazine, Slideshow
Peeping Tom Camera Uses Lasers to Peer Around Corners

Peeping Tom Camera Uses Lasers to Peer Around Corners

Discover, November 19 2010.

A new camera being developed at MIT has the ability to see around corners–without the use of periscopes or mirrors. The camera works by bouncing ultra-short bursts of laser light off a solid surface (like a floor or an open door). Most of the light is reflected..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Discover magazine, News Article, Technology & AI
Hopping Mars Rover Could Run on Isotopes and Martian Air

Hopping Mars Rover Could Run on Isotopes and Martian Air

Discover, November 18 2010.

Rovers that roll are so 2004. This year’s designers are bringing the heat with fashionable Mars hopper designs, dreaming of explorers that can go the distance one half-mile hop at a time. The British team that described its design in the journal Proceedings..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Discover magazine, News Article, Space & Astronomy
In the Glorious Future, Could Space Travel Be Poop-Powered?

In the Glorious Future, Could Space Travel Be Poop-Powered?

Discover, November 18 2010.

Since we’re experimenting with using human excrement to power all kinds of things on earth, from buses and cars to natural gas for our homes, why not try renewable poop power in space? That’s the mission adopted by a team at the Florida Institute..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Discover magazine, News Article, Space & Astronomy
The Sweet Sound of Seepage: Listening to the Oil Spill

The Sweet Sound of Seepage: Listening to the Oil Spill

Discover, November 17 2010.

We all heard about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But what if scientists could have actually HEARD it? In the wake of the disaster, several scientists are working to develop new ways to spot and monitor spills over time using sonar–by..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Climate & Environment, Discover magazine, News Article
LHC Particle Physicists to World: Our New Album Drops December 6th

LHC Particle Physicists to World: Our New Album Drops December 6th

Discover, November 17 2010.

The particle physicists at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider aren’t just searching for the elemental forces of the universe; they are also looking for a #1 Christmas single. Several groups of physicists-turned-musicians from ATLAS are gearing..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Discover magazine, News Article, Space & Astronomy
Let Loose the Coyotes? Chicago Embraces Rat-Hunting Predators

Let Loose the Coyotes? Chicago Embraces Rat-Hunting Predators

Discover, November 16 2010.

The coyote to the right was caught on video running loose in the middle of Chicago at 3:00 am on Monday morning. The police didn’t seem to know what it was doing there, but Brad Block, a supervisor for the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control told Chicago..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Animals & Insects, Discover magazine, News Article
Movie Soundtracks Use Animal-Like Sounds to Tug on Your Emotions

Movie Soundtracks Use Animal-Like Sounds to Tug on Your Emotions

Discover, November 16 2010.

You might not be able to pick them out, but in the hectic noisiness of a movie’s battle scene there are a few primordial sounds of distressed animals. These types of sounds are used by audio engineers, knowingly or not, to elicit emotional reactions from viewers,..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Animals & Insects, Discover magazine, News Article
The Little Space Probe That Could: Hayabusa Brought Home Asteroid Dust

The Little Space Probe That Could: Hayabusa Brought Home Asteroid Dust

Discover, November 16 2010.

Seven years after launch, Japan’s Hayabusa researchers can finally celebrate their success: The little asteroid probe has, really and truly, succeeded at its mission. Researchers announced that the probe’s payload capsule, retrieved in June, contains..

Posted by Jennifer Welsh in 2010, Discover magazine, News Article, Space & Astronomy