A Penn Stater Blogging for Newsweek
May 18, 2009 at 2:09 pm Tina Hay 1 comment
Newsweek magazine just launched a new blog called “The Human Condition,” and the main author of the blog is none other than Kate Dailey ’02, a former Lion Ambassador and former associate editor at Women’s Health and Men’s Health magazines.
There’s new content on the blog every weekday, and most of it (so far, anyway) is written by Kate. She explains the subject matter this way: “Our tag is ‘Mind. Body. Culture’ and, though the content so far has been very health/nutrition driven, we plan to cover a wide variety of topics relating to medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, gender, etc.—all the ‘people sciences.’”
Sample entries so far have ranged from “The Five Worst Gym Machines: Top Trainers Tell What Doesn’t Work” to “Surviving a Layoff: You Kept Your Job. Now Keep Sane” to “OMG! Grey’s Anatomy Finale Mystery SOLVED!”
I asked Kate how she got such a cool gig, and she said it goes back to a summer internship she did at Newsweek while a grad student in journalism at Columbia University. “I was reluctant about being an intern,” she says. “I had been running a section of the magazine at Women’s Health, and here I was working with kids 10 years younger than I was, while doing a lot of entry-level work. But I knew the opportunity would help my career in the long run.” A few months later, when she saw a posting for the Newsweek blogging job, she was able to use her contacts to get a foot in the door with the hiring manager of the blog.
“She asked me to do some sample blogging, and after our interview I harassed her almost every day via e-mail with more ideas that we could run on the blog and suggestions of how to shape and market it,” Kate says. “My persistence paid off.
“I feel very lucky to get a job in this economic climate, and even luckier that it’s this job.”
Tina Hay, editor
Entry filed under: College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State alumni. Tags: "The Human Condition", blogging, Columbia University, Kate Dailey, Lion Ambassadors, Men's Health, Newsweek, Women's Health.
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