A Talk with Sabrina Weill

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.