Longtime women’s and magazine editor Sabrina Weill may have left the magazine business, but she still wants to be part of the club. Speaking to a packed room of NYU Journalism students, Weill stresses the importance of networking in a business that can be based more on who you know than you ever knew, and offers advice for making it in magazines.
“There’s an inside and an outside,” Weill says, “and it’s better to be on the inside. Using your connections will not get you a job – but it will put your resume at the top of the pile.”
Weill is the former editor-in-chief of Seventeen, senior editor at Redbook and a founding editor of CosmoGIRL!, as well as published author of The Seventeen Guide to Sex and Your Body and last year’s The Real Truth About Teens and Sex. She recently jumped ship from the magazine masthead to start her own company, Weill Media. But this auburn-haired, 30-something CEO with Lisa Loeb glasses admits that she misses her monthlies, and she still likens each new website her company launches with publishing a brand-new magazine.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
This is a little late, but...
I have had limited internet access lately, and I felt that this story was still worth putting up (since it's not like anyone reads this anyway and I haven't posted in so long as it is):
Thanksgiving is fast approaching – which means that Christmas music will be taking over radio stations for the next month and colorful decorations have lined the streets since Halloween. ‘Tis the season to shop. But before you go to Tower Records’ Going-Out-of-Business sale to get your annual fix of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole or A Charlie Brown Christmas, consider walking across East 4th street to the other music store on the block.
Other Music, a small record store located on East 4th and Lafayette streets, offers alternatives to the typical holiday tunes (as well as any other genre, from Turkish psychedelia to Japanese surf rock) while catering to the music aficionados that flock there. Although you might find a copy of Mariah Carey’s perennial best-seller Merry Christmas hidden on the shelves, the biggest release this season will likely be indie-music king Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas.
“People who shop here aren’t really into the typical Christmas albums,” says Other Music store clerk Duane Harriott. “Mostly they’re looking for quirky stuff. It’s more fun than it is sacred.”
As a result, Harriott says, Other Music’s most popular Christmas collections are predictably offbeat. James Brown’s Funky Christmas makes a resurgence every year. Rudy Ray Moore, a.k.a. “Dolemite,” released This Ain’t No White Christmas in 1986, and his notoriously dirty version of “Night Before Christmas” has kept it in stock for the past two decades. Harriott’s personal favorite, though, is A Reggae Christmas, featuring holiday classics as interpreted by 60s and 70s reggae stars like Desmond Dekker, The Kingstonians and Studio Three.
But Other Music counts on its customers to look beyond the Top 40, or even the changing seasons, for their particular musical tastes. As Tower Records shuts its doors and other music chains struggle to survive, Harriott does not expect a surge in crossover Christmas purchases. “The people who shop here know us,” he says. “They already know that we’re here.”
Thanksgiving is fast approaching – which means that Christmas music will be taking over radio stations for the next month and colorful decorations have lined the streets since Halloween. ‘Tis the season to shop. But before you go to Tower Records’ Going-Out-of-Business sale to get your annual fix of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole or A Charlie Brown Christmas, consider walking across East 4th street to the other music store on the block.
Other Music, a small record store located on East 4th and Lafayette streets, offers alternatives to the typical holiday tunes (as well as any other genre, from Turkish psychedelia to Japanese surf rock) while catering to the music aficionados that flock there. Although you might find a copy of Mariah Carey’s perennial best-seller Merry Christmas hidden on the shelves, the biggest release this season will likely be indie-music king Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas.
“People who shop here aren’t really into the typical Christmas albums,” says Other Music store clerk Duane Harriott. “Mostly they’re looking for quirky stuff. It’s more fun than it is sacred.”
As a result, Harriott says, Other Music’s most popular Christmas collections are predictably offbeat. James Brown’s Funky Christmas makes a resurgence every year. Rudy Ray Moore, a.k.a. “Dolemite,” released This Ain’t No White Christmas in 1986, and his notoriously dirty version of “Night Before Christmas” has kept it in stock for the past two decades. Harriott’s personal favorite, though, is A Reggae Christmas, featuring holiday classics as interpreted by 60s and 70s reggae stars like Desmond Dekker, The Kingstonians and Studio Three.
But Other Music counts on its customers to look beyond the Top 40, or even the changing seasons, for their particular musical tastes. As Tower Records shuts its doors and other music chains struggle to survive, Harriott does not expect a surge in crossover Christmas purchases. “The people who shop here know us,” he says. “They already know that we’re here.”
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