CAFME in NYC: Who's Who

Get to know the CAFME members who traveled to New York City to meet up with Ed2010!

Caitlin Covington is a senior electronic communications major and creative writing minor at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a writer and editor for Carolina Woman Magazine, a magazine for women in the Triangle area with a readership of more than 100,000. She is also a contributing writer and photographer for Greatist.com, a trusted health and fitness source for the young, savvy, and social. She runs her own blog, Southern Curls and Pearls, where she posts about fashion, beauty, fitness and food. In her spare time, she loves cooking, working out, taking pictures and reading her beloved fashion magazines. After graduation this May, Caitlin is hoping to land her dream job in NYC working for a fashion, food, health, or fitness magazine!

Carson Blackwelder is a junior English and journalism double major concentrating in reporting. On campus, he is an assistant design editor and arts reporter for The Daily Tar Heel, managing editor for Rival magazine and special projects coordinator for Cafme. This past fall, he worked as an editorial intern at Our State magazine, North Carolina’s bestselling regional magazine, where he copy-edited articles and produced sidebars for the issues. Carson is a pop culture writer and graphics producer for "Brain Game," a "Jeopardy!"-style quiz show for local high school students, on WRAL, Raleigh’s CBS affiliate. He has blogged for Blue & White magazine, a campus publication, and Cliché Magazine, an online entertainment magazine based out of Los Angeles. Last summer, he interned for Raleigh Downtowner, a small lifestyle magazine focusing on the city. Carson enjoys all things TV, music and movies and hopes to intern at an entertainment publication in New York City this summer before moving up after graduation.

Charlotte Taylor is a sophomore advertising major and art history minor at UNC-CH. She works as a design assistant for the Carolina Union Design Services, working on various design projects for a variety of the over 600 student organizations on campus. She also works as a PR & marketing intern at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, helping to market the planetarium, both design-wise and content-wise, throughout North Carolina. She works as a staff member on the design desk at The Daily Tar Heel as well. Charlotte was born and raised in Huntington Beach, Calif., by her artist mother and thus, loves both the ocean and the imagination/ creativity she has come to associate with it. She hopes to continue working in the arts after college, beginning in New York City and hopefully traveling to places equally as incredible in the years following.

Courtney Lindstrand is a sophomore Journalism-Editing and Graphic Design major at UNC-CH. She is a campus ambassador for LuckyU, Lucky magazine’s pilot marketing program that aims to bring affordable fashion to college women. Courtney is the Art Director, blog columnist and a freelance writer for Blue & White, UNC’s premier feature magazine. She is a designer for Scope fashion magazine and a contributing writer for Her Campus UNC, an online magazine for college women. She is also the interior design coordinator for COUTURevolution, UNC’s eco-friendly fashion show. Last summer, Courtney was an editorial intern at The Daily Reflector, the newspaper in her hometown of Greenville, N.C. This summer, she hopes to intern at a major fashion or lifestyle magazine in New York City. In her free time, you can find Courtney attempting to cook using recipes from her favorite website, Pinterest.

Courtney Tye ia a double major in graphic design and information science and is interested in both print and web design. She is the design editor for Carolina Passport Magazine and design director for Scope Magazine, and has designed and copy edited for other publications as well. In the summer of 2011, Courtney interned at University Directories, working on planners and directories for over 190 U.S. colleges and universities. She has also interned for Coman Publishing, a Durham-based magazine publishing company. After graduation in May 2013, Courtney hopes to pursue a career in magazine design.

Apply to be a Cafme officer!

Positions available: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Special Projects Coordinator
Deadline to apply: Friday, April 6 by 5 p.m.
How to apply: Send your resume and a cover letter explaining why you want to hold the desired position and how you could benefit Cafme in that position. Send these two materials in an email to unccafme@gmail.com. You do not have to be an official member of Cafme to apply or to be elected.

PRESIDENT
Responsible for:

• Leading meetings with the executive board, overseeing other officers
• Preparing meeting handouts and speaker invitations
• Brainstorming meeting ideas and speakers (and playing a very active role in semester planning)
• Reaching out to industry contacts for meetings
• Coordinating with UNC to book meeting locations, times and to maintain club's official status, meeting with advisor if necessary
• Serving as a liaison to Ed2010 for chapter updates and maintaining Cafme's official chapter status
• Serving as the face of the organization, a representative of the Journalism School
• Keeping (safe) all Cafme documents
• Checking email account
• Assisting and suggesting projects for member recruitment
• Maintaining contact with the board and participating in officer discussion on how to better improve the club
• Encourage partnerships with other campus organizations
• Helping plan and lead during club trips with the president(s): this includes the annual NYC Trip, Pace Trip, etc.
• Attending each meeting

CAFME Recap for February 15: Terence Oliver

Wednesday night, J-School professor, Terence Oliver came to speak to us about the Magazine Design class, working on publications and the iPad.

Miss the meeting? Need a refresher? Keep reading to see what he had to share with us!

About the Magazine Classes

• The writing and design classes come together each semester to collaborate on two magazines.
• The process is entirely student driven, bringing in student photographers, editors and ad classes.
• The writing class pitches ideas to the team and the professors (Linda Brinson, Magazine Writing professor) pick to two to move forward with. Students break into teams and look at the target market. Designers then create a style guide and writers create stories. Leadership structures resemble the real world, with editors, art directors and assistant art directors. The entire time, the magazine evolves as teams reevaluate the work being done.
• In the past, the classes have produced Earth + Sky (which won first place in the nation for a start-up magazine), Carolina Fresh, Men's Retirement, Bean & Leaf and Wabi Sabi.
• "Really the whole goal is to have our magazines be a real experience on the job, but also to help people...it become more than an experience in the classroom and becomes research into our design and storytelling." Terence Oliver

Moving Toward the iPad

• "No matter what, we have to move forward with digital connections. It's was all about risk tasking. For me, it was all about opportunity." TO
• In fall 2011, Terence wanted to raise the bar and incorporate mobile devices into the curriculum. With no guarantees of its success, Terence added the component to the syllabus. Using InDesign CS5.5 with iPad design capabilites, the class went to work to create two apps for each magazine, re-purposing the designs of each story.
• "Every page, we look at it and think, 'How can we make it interactive?'" TO
• The app is free now, but monetizing it later on could pull money into the J-School and the class in later semesters. This would create more funds for printing and give the magazines a higher circulation so the community can get their hands on it. 
• Each semester, the opportunity becomes greater. Terence is considering future classes to work on one start up magazine, and one continued magazine from a previous semester which can feed money back into the classes.

Terence Oliver on Success

"Just have fun, explore, go crazy, then reel yourself in -- that's the most fun. When you do that, it shows in your work and people feel it and enjoy it."

"Even if you're not in this class, you got to have progessive thinking. You have a legacy to uphold in journalism. Step up to the plate and hit a home run."

"Success is planned. Surround yourself with people of the same mindset."


Thanks to everyone who came out and to Terence Oliver for speaking to us!

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.

End of the Semester: Have a Great Break!

It's the end of the semester, and we just want to thank you for joining or remaining involved in CAFME this year! We hope you've had as much fun as we have, and we can't wait for an even better second semester.

Thanks, too, to everyone who came out for our end of semester party. We had a lot of fun at Back Bar, and we enjoyed getting to know some of you better!




CAFME End of Semester Party at Back Bar.

New York City Trip 2012

What: An NYC trip to visit THE ACTUAL Ed2010 (our national organization) in the spring and meet its national founders. Talk about fulfilling a love for magazines.

Trip Dates: Sunday, March 25 – Tuesday March 27, 2012

Application Deadline: Friday, January 20, 2012, at 5 p.m. EST.

Notification: Sunday, January 22, 2012, at 5 p.m. EST.

Cost of Trip: ~ $300 (currently $200 for round trip plane ticket, $100 for two nights)

Money Due: Friday, January 27, 2012, at 5 p.m. EST (more details TBD)

Email unccafme@gmail.com if you have questions!

The application was e-mailed to the listserv, but if you didn't get it, see below!