SPI Day One: Passion, Power Editors, and Russian Poetry

Zinczenko and Leive at NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute

I’d wager there’s at least one kid in every city who dreams of making it big in New York. While a fair few aspire to Broadway stardom, our kind imagines something slightly more bookish, although undoubtedly as enchanting.

Our kind is the readers, the writers, and the would-be editors and publishers. We grew up checking out too many books from the library, using our allowances at Barnes & Noble, staying up way past midnight to read the new Harry Potter book, and just generally spending hours (possibly days) with our faces buried in text. While for some, this process may have manifested itself in a less-pronounced fashion, 116 of us applied and were accepted to the Summer Publishing Institute at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. At SPI, as we call it, we’ve now found ourselves eagerly immersed in one of the most intense summers of our lives. 

Mashable Media Summit 2011: Tweetable Moments

Pete Cashmore, Founder and CEO of Mashable

Is “frictionless sharing” the way of the future? That was one of the questions at the recent Mashable Media Summit, where I was lucky enough to be one of the NYU-SCPS Master of Science in Publishing students invited to volunteer. I’ve personally been a fan of Mashable, the online news site and blog, for years, looking to its editors for the leading tech news, industry rumors, best practices in today’s emerging social media platforms, and tips and tricks for enhancing my own user experience. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to hear a number of the thought leaders and influencers from across the media industry in exchange for helping out at the registration table.

My life As An Intern

Glamour intern Laura Riggio

Imagine what it’s like for a relatively shy person (that would be me) to approach total strangers in Union Square or Bryant Park or Herald Square and say, “Excuse me, would you like to be in Glamour magazine?” Well, that’s just one of the many challenges I face as an intern working for Suze Yalof Schwartz, the Executive Fashion Editor at Large at Glamour.  As a student in NYU’s Master of Science in Publishing program, I’m encouraged to intern to gain more industry experience—and at Glamour, I’m getting plenty! In addition to finding subjects on the street for our “real women” photo shoots, I’m busy helping Suze with her pages in the print magazine, her blog “Slaves to Fashion” on the Glamour website, and her appearances on television networks as a style guru for the magazine.