Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

EXPERIENCE

PAGE SIX MAGAZINE
Contributing Editor (April 2008 to present)
• Write profiles and features for the magazine

PAGE SIX MAGAZINE
Acting Senior Editor (February 2008 to April 2008)
• Managed staff, wrote display copy, assigned and top edited various sections of book including fashion, food, travel and home

TIME OUT NEW YORK
Hot Seat Editor; Web Editor/staff writer (September 2007 to January 2008)
• Oversaw all elements of the “Hot Seat” section of magazine (wrangle celebrities, edit text, work with writers, conduct interviews and write column)
• Managed all Time Out New York blogs
• Managed all Time Out New York vlogs (video blogs) and Video On Demand segments
• Acted as liaison between editorial and online department to facilitate online development; acted as liaison between TONY and video production team
• Appeared weekly on WNBC’s Weekend Today in New York show. Frequent guest on WNBC’s Today in New York, Fox’s Good Day New York, The CW11 Morning News and the Fox News Channel’s Red Eye

TIME OUT NEW YORK
Associate Features Editor (July 2005 to August 2007)
• Conceptualize, assign, write, edit (line edit and top edit) feature stories and packages
• Helmed a number of feature packages including the “Are You a True New Yorker?” issue, the “Detox” issue, the “50 Greatest NYC Rivalries” issue, the “Male Diva” issue, the “Avant-Nerd” issue and more
• Wrote display copy including heds, deks and captions for features
• Wrote and wrangled celebrity stories, wrote film reviews
• Wrote interviews for the “Hot Seat” section of the magazine including Q&As with John Mayer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Val Kilmer and others
• Wrote weekly table of contents blurbs
• Launched Time Out New York award-winning blog in late 2006. Wrote daily humor column and managed bloggers

TIME OUT NEW YORK
Music writer (Dec 2004 to July 2005)
• Wrote weekly music reviews and listings
• Wrote Q&A interviews for the “Backstage with…” column in the music section
• Wrote features and FOB pieces
• Wrote “Hot Seat” interviews

PEOPLE.COM
Freelance Daily News Writer (2003 to 2004)

OC WEEKLY ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Features editor (2001 to 2002)
Staff writer (1999 to 2000)
• Covered music, news, pop culture, fashion and nightlife
• Edited, at various times, both the music and theater sections
• Edited a number of award-winning special issues such as the Music Issue, Fashion Issue, Sex Issue and Gift Guide. Planned coverage, assigned stories and line edited for these issues

FREELANCE
Rolling Stone (covered red carpets and interviewed celebrities as a stringer for “Random Notes,” wrote “In the Studio” pieces), People, Village Voice, Seventeen, Giant, Stuff, Nerve, Los Angeles Times, Vibe, Sync, Maxim, Hallmark

EDUCATION
Pomona College, Claremont, CA 1997; Bachelor of Arts, English