1. Steve Weinstein
917-941-2283 sweinsteinnyc@gmail.com
522 W. 50th St. A1 New York City 10019
• Extensive experience editing & reporting on wide spectrum of topics: breaking news; health, medical & nutrition;
the arts; architecture, landscape design, interior design & real estate; religion; sports; media; travel; fashion; food
& wine, investing & finance (corporate & personal); technology
• Turnkey editorial product: generating s tory ideas ; finding qualified writers; sourcing photographs & line art;
trafficking copy; copy edit; final layout
• Cons ulting on des ign & portals acros s digital platforms
• Launching or re-branding titles
• Moderating public forums covering LGBT media, medicine & current affairs
• Media promotion, including on-air interviews
• Producing turnkey custom content & sponsored supplements from conception to final layout on topics including
commercial & residential real estate; investing; Big Pharma; auto; travel; fashion; holiday gifts; city guides
• Writing pres s releas es & media kits
• Sales calls to advertisers & agencies; senior media management
• Familiarity across formatting systems, including CMS, HTML, Expression Engine; photo editing in Preview &
Photoshop
Experience
• Reporter/writer: wide range of newspapers, B2B & consumer: e.g., Ad Age, Crain’s New York Business, Village
Voice, Out, Advocate, International Herald Tribune, CNBC, WallStreetJournal.com
• 2007—Present: annual guest editor of Village Voice June Pride issue
• 2008—Present: editor-in-chief, noiZe
• Overs eeing glos sy quarterly magazine nationally distributed in retail & nightlife outlets
• Aided 2013 digital migration of content & photos
• Sole content provider s ince 11/13
• 12/2014 rebranded as noize.buzz & noize.photos (beta only)
• 2007—2013 editor-in-chief, Edge Media Network
• Managed staff of editors & freelancers covering LGBT breaking news, entertainment, style, travel,
health & medical, columnists
• Interfaced with ad s ide on s pons ored copy & s upplements
• Wrote content daily covering breaking news & news features; profiles; opinion column; reviews of
plastic arts, live performance, TV, film; style (food & wine, fashion, travel, fitness); HIV (service &
advocacy organizations; activism; pharma; safe sex, women & minorities & other public-health issues;
breaking news)
• Expanded from New England & New York to 21 city portals
• Helped launch & edit monthly features for iPad magazine
• Curated two online art exhibits, “Artis ts Res ponding to AIDS”
• 2006 interim senior editor, Crain’s New York Business
• Assigned, edited upfront news & departments; edited daily hospital newsletter; wrote back-of-the-book
features
• 2002—2005 editor-in-chief, New York Blade
• Edited LGBT citywide weekly covering news, arts, lifestyle
• Reported/wrote breaking news, editorials, reviews, features
• 1999—2001 managing editor, Women’s Day Special Interest Pub lications
• Reviewed copy & layouts prior to final for one -off magazines in home improvement & design, crafts,
holidays, health & nutrition
• Managed & coordinated freelance editors , copy editors , wri ters & photographers
• 1993—1998 founder/owner/publisher, Daily Express
• Staffed & overs aw editorial, s ales , production teams
• Clos ed ad s ales & made client calls in New York, Los Angeles for TV trade -show daily
• Contracted print runs & hotel dis tribution deals in five cities
• Negotiated s ales in co-op deal with major U.K. B2B monthly
• 2007 The Q Guide to Fire Island
• Wrote trade paperback travel guide commissioned & published by Alyson Books
• Collated photos
• Introduction by Hal Rubens tein (InStyle, New York Times, New York, Good Morning America)

2. Education
• M.A., journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
• Night city editor, The Missourian, metro daily
• Interns hip, (London) Sunday Times
• B.A., St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md.
• Four-year program in the “Great Books ”: original texts covering the humanities, earth s ciences,
astronomy, math, theoretical physics, music
References, links, hard-copy clips, sample issues available upon request