CAFME Recap for Jan. 25: Pace Communications Associate Editor Kelly Thore

From Chapel Hill to Manhattan to Greensboro, UNC alumna Kelly Thore's magazine career has taken her far in the two years since she graduated. Kelly spoke to Cafme during our second meeting about her time at Cosmopolitan and her new job at Pace Communications.

Miss the meeting? Looking for the key points? Keep reading to see what she said!

About Kelly

• Kelly graduated from UNC in 2010. Around this time, her friend and fellow UNC alum Robin Hilmantel, who was working as an editorial assistant at Cosmo,, got a promotion to associate editor. Robin contacted Kelly and asked her if she'd be interested in applying for the open editorial assistant position. Kelly did, and after she took an edit test and flew up to NYC for an interview, she got the job.
• After about a year and a half at Cosmo, Kelly received a call from an editor at Pace, where Kelly had interned as an undergraduate. The editor told her about a job opening for a custom publication called Hotline The Americas, which covers the hospitality industry. Kelly loved the job description, especially because the job involved traveling, so she interviewed for the position and got the job. Kelly has worked at Pace for about six months and says she loves it.

CAFME Recap for Jan. 18: Jennifer Abella of Washington Post Magazine

Welcome back, Cafme members! We hope you were able to make it out to the first meeting of the semester. We had a great Skype session with UNC alumna Jennifer Abella, who is a copy editor at Washington Post Magazine.

Miss the meeting? Need a refresher? Keep reading to see what she had to tell us!

Meet Jennifer

• Jennifer graduated from UNC in 2000 as a political science and journalism major.
• She knew that she wanted to be involved in copy editing after she started working at The Daily Tar Heel during her first year of college.
• Before landing her first job at The Washington Post, she interned at the Salisbury Post,The News & Observer, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post.
• Jennifer worked at The Washington Post from 2000 to 2010, when she began working at Washington Post Magazine. She's worked at Washington Post Magazine for a little over a year.
• At Washington Post Magazine, Jennifer is a copy editor, but she does much more than copy editing. She also helps with web production, is an assignment editor for front-of-book stories (articles that appear at the beginning of the magazine) and works with other assignment editors and writers to fact-check, perfect and assign pieces.

About Washington Post Magazine

• The magazine has a staff of nine, which includes designers, production chiefs, copy editors, assignment editors and the main editor.
• There are no staff writers on the magazine, but sometimes staff writers from The Washington Post will write stories for the magazine. Jennifer estimates that 80 percent of the staff is freelance.
  
• The magazine works really far in advance. For example, someone who is writing an article now may not see it published until December.