Contributors
Kristen Bellstrom
lives and writes in New York City, one of the best places on Earth. Having confronted
her feminist guilt, she looks forward to reading about the fall collections and amassing the biggest shoe collection
in journalism.
Chris Fleisher
came to Columbia’s J-School by way of The Indypendent, a bi-weekly newspaper in New York.
His good looks and charm have gotten him nowhere in the industry to date, but he’s happy to have had the opportunity
to drop the V-Bomb in conversations with his friends (“So, I was talking with Victor Navasky the other day...”).
Carrie Giddins
is a longtime political consultant making her move into the world of journalism. She served
as the Webmaster for NYRM and her photography and additional work can be found at:
CRGPhoto
Georgia Jacobs
arrived at
NYRM from Planet Tokyo, where she spent three years at the helm of
Metropolis,
an English entertainment and lifestyle weekly. At
NYRM, she created catchy headlines and teased the secrets of publishing
from U.K. editors (with a phone bill to prove it). Contact her at georgia_jacobs@yahoo.com.
Karla Lightfoot
: Between headstands and sun salutations, Karla managed to co-write “The BAP Handbook:
The Official Guide to the Black American Princess.” A cross between a yogi, a style maven and a bon vivant, she hopes
to help women find their inner princess by writing about fashion, food, fun and spiritual fitness.
Tom Meagher
: A journalist and aspiring author, he hopes the book editors he interviewed for his piece on the
state of newspaper literary coverage will remember him fondly when his first book is published. He lives and writes
in Brooklyn.
José Negroni
was a reporter for the
Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, where he covered theater, rock and ballet.
He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2003, where he helped edit the school daily and played for the men’s
first-ever basketball team. José spent the summer writing about the Brooklyn Cyclones for a small Brooklyn paper.
His interests include writing, basketball and hiking.
Rupal Parekh
is a native of the Garden State (yes, that is New Jersey), and she is content knowing that
NYRM
isn’t sold door-to-door. She likes to write about business, travel and everyday happenings. You can write her at
journo47@yahoo.com
Corey Pein
was a copy editor for
NYRM, and the whole experience has fueled his tendency to have Bad Thoughts.
He is from the Great Northwest. He likes New York, despite all it’s done to him. Contact him at c_pein@hotmail.com.
Jay Pfeifer
was also a copy editor for
NYRM. He grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but spent the past eight
years avoiding the cold in Virginia. He has been published in a couple of Virginia alternative-weeklies and hopes to
someday write for magazines—not just write about them.
Adam Pitluk
is what we in the industry call a “journeyman journalist.” He has the dubious distinction of being
one of a select few writers who have been published in both
High Times and
Boys’ Life.
Muna Shikaki
: Before moving to the Axis of Good, Muna worked at the Negotiation Affairs Department in
occupied Palestine, writing response e-mails to PLO bashers. Her article about
Azizah magazine fulfilled her urge
to see a piece mentioning Muslims without mentioning September 11. She hopes justice will prevail, so that she can
start covering topics that got her interested in journalism in the first place, like fashion and makeup.
María I. Soldevila
: Directly from Quisqueya in the Dominican Republic, Maria has been a journalist for
the past eight years. If she gets her way, she will spend the next year researching for her first non-fiction book, while
she continues doing freelance work in both the United States and the Dominican Republic.
Elizabeth Woyke
: An Internet junkie, Elizabeth happily Googled and Lexis-Nexised her way through most
of her fact-checking duties for
NYRM. After completing the Columbia Publishing Course in 2002, Elizabeth
worked as a joint editorial assistant at Random House and
Vogue. She has no plans to write a tell-all book about
the experience.