Just because McDonald's and Nike have staked out the choicest spots on the world’s main streets doesn’t mean whole neighborhoods have homogenized, that dinner conversations cut the same way in Kansas and Karachi, or that you'll never again find fresh ways to journey, think, create, explore or dress.
That's why we're starting
Big World. We reject the popular idea that people only care about what happens on their own block -- and that we've already figured out all the other places, anyway.
We'll help readers delve into new voyages and ideas, global cultural developments and trends, via
evocative stories, voices, video and art.
No pay, for now. But we’ll carry your bio and website link, feature your ad, and pay you 50% of any syndication fees. Plus sing your praises to everyone we know.
Special Projects Editor, Global Finance magazine, New York. Managed department, and developed global network of 25 freelance correspondents. Conceived, commissioned, and wrote or edited four to eight magazine articles per month about international business and policy in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Typical topics: Latin American energy outlook, Russian portfolio investment, Turkish economic climate. Traveled abroad frequently. May 1996 to May 1997.
Editor in Chief, Emerging Markets Debt Report/the American Banker, New York. Produced weekly 12-page Wall Street newsletter on developing country political and economic policy. Covered the Mexican peso crisis, U.S./Latin presidential summit, Russian and Turkish economies, IMF-World Bank meetings. Oversaw redesign of publication, founded international bonds coverage, managed small department and six freelance correspondents abroad. April 1992 to May 1996.
Editor, Collapse: The Venezuelan Banking Crisis of 1994, by Ruth de Krivoy. (The Group of Thirty, Washington, D.C., 2000) Helped this former central bank president write a dramatic tale of a nation's financial meltdown.
"An interesting and provocative case study in political economy." --Mercedes Da Costa, the IMF quarterly Finance and Development.
Read the review.
Chief editor, Latin Source, global analytical service. Edit the work of former top policymakers in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Central America, Turkey, Russia and China, helping them provide economic and political insights about their countries to corporations and investors.
2002-present.
Director, NYU Livewire. Relaunched the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute's feature syndicate, which arranges for professional publication of student work, and built circulation to 200+ editors nationally. More than 90 percent of Livewire stories have been published, in such venues as the
Orange County Register, the
Boston Globe, the
Philadelphia Daily News, Worldpress,
The New Black Magazine (London), the
Athens (Greece) News, the
Turkish Daily News and
The New Democrat (Monrovia).
January 2006 to present.
Editor, Dispatches from Ground Zero. Ran NYU’s daily faculty/student magazine about the impacts of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, overseeing four faculty editors. 21 stories were selected for the anthology
9/11 8:48 a.m.: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy, the first book about the attacks.
2001-2002.
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