PAUL TULLIS (310) 801-4305 pt at paultullis.net • www.paultullis.net PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Experienced media professional with senior editorial and production experience in magazines, books, radio and online. Contributor to such marquee publications as LA Times Magazine, New York, Wired, The New Yorker, and many others. Co-founding editor of Might, one of the most influential magazines of the 1990s. Produced highly rated regional, national and international current-affairs programming for public radio. Humorist published in several books, all released by major publishers. MEDIA EXPERIENCE Freelance Writer (San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles) | 1993 - present Frequent contributor to marquee magazines, books, radio and online publications. Paid blogger on environmental issues at TrueSlant.com/paultullis. Contributed to such publications as The New Yorker, New York, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Vibe, Wired, Columbia Journalism Review, Brill’s Content, Salon, Los Angeles, McSweeney’s, McSweeneys.net, Mademoiselle, New York Daily News, Bon Appetit, NPR's “Morning Edition,” Monitor Radio and KFOG-San Francisco. Contributed to such books as Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s, Humor Category (Knopf), Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial), 101 Damnations (St. Martin’s), Shiny Adidas Tracksuits…and Other Essays from Might Magazine (Putnam), and Mirth of a Nation (Harper), among others. Plenty magazine (New York, NY) | Articles Editor, web editor | 2008 - 2009 Number-three editor at a bimonthly environmental-lifestyle magazine. As editor of the magazine's website, plentymag.com, was commissioning editor of a daily 800-word feature, and edited and managed a roster of blogs. Was conceiving total a redesign of the website in concert with outside design experts when the company suddenly and unexpectedly went out of business. Men’s Journal magazine (New York, NY) | Articles Editor | 2007 - 2008 Top-level editor in a 25-person editorial department at the fastest-growing men’s magazine, with a 750,000 rate base. Edited monthly environmental column as well as features. Wrote two features in 2008, including a Q&A with Keith Olbermann that was picked up by the New York Daily News, Gawker, TVNewser and Fox News, among others. Radar magazine (New York, NY) | Articles Editor | 2007 Three-month assignment editing features and writing for the ASME-nominated magazine and its website. Seed magazine (New York, NY) | Senior Editor | 2005 - 2006 Senior editor in a 13-person editorial department at science-culture magazine with a 192,000 circulation base. Top-edited the entire 96-page magazine and wrote/selected nearly all the magazine's display copy. Conceived, solicited, edited and re-wrote features and shorter front-of-book pieces. Seed was nominated for general excellence in the 2007 National Magazine Awards. It was also recognized for best science/technology coverage, and nominated for general excellence, in the 2006 Independent Press Awards. One of the articles I edited was included in the 2007 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton-Mifflin). KCRW/PRI (Santa Monica, CA) | Producer | 2004 Produced long- and short-form segments for two daily radio current-affairs programs: “To the Point,” covering national and international news and heard by over 300,000 listeners daily; and “Which Way L.A.?,” the premier public-affairs program in Southern California. Responsible for 2-5 segments per week; conceived and developed program ideas; researched topics; and pre-interviewed a broad range of notable guests such as UN Under Secretary General Jan Egeland, Congressmen Henry Waxman and Christopher Shays, Sen. Gary Hart, 9/11 victims’ families, and journalists reporting live from Iraq. The programs multiple L.A. Press Club Awards in 2004. Might Magazine (San Francisco, CA) | Senior Editor | 1993 - 1997 Senior editor of the national independent general-interest bimonthly. Might was named the 19th best magazine of all time by Good and one of Library Journal’s Ten Best Magazines for 1994; also the only dual nominee in the 1997 Independent Press Awards. Drawing heavily on the influence of early Spy and Monty Python, Might also ran serious items on politics, policy and culture, re-defining Generation X. Wrote or edited numerous cover stories; conceived, edited and assigned at least one feature in every issue, covering a wide range of subjects; edited the reviews sections. Produced the entire critically-acclaimed 72-page bi-monthly with a staff of 4-6. Rose from featured contributor [1993] to associate editor [1994] to senior editor [1995-97]. EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) | BA in History | 1992 Honor Society invitee Technical: Proficient with Mac and PC; MS Office; InCopy and InDesign; Dalet sound-editing software. Languages: basic French

PAUL TULLIS

(310) 801-4305

pt at paultullis.net • www.paultullis.net

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced media professional with senior editorial and production experience in magazines, books, radio and online.

Contributor to such marquee publications as LA Times Magazine, New York, Wired, The New Yorker, and many others.

Co-founding editor of Might, one of the most influential magazines of the 1990s.

Produced highly rated regional, national and international current-affairs programming for public radio.

Humorist published in several books, all released by major publishers.

MEDIA EXPERIENCE

Freelance Writer (San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles) | 1993 - present

✴Frequent contributor to marquee magazines, books, radio and online publications.
✴Paid blogger on environmental issues at TrueSlant.com/paultullis.
✴Contributed to such publications as The New Yorker, New York, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Vibe, Wired, Columbia Journalism Review, Brill’s Content, Salon, Los Angeles, McSweeney’s, McSweeneys.net, Mademoiselle, New York Daily News, Bon Appetit, NPR's “Morning Edition,” Monitor Radio and KFOG-San Francisco.
✴Contributed to such books as Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s, Humor Category (Knopf), Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial), 101 Damnations (St. Martin’s), Shiny Adidas Tracksuits…and Other Essays from Might Magazine (Putnam), and Mirth of a Nation (Harper), among others.

Plenty magazine (New York, NY) | Articles Editor, web editor | 2008 - 2009

✴Number-three editor at a bimonthly environmental-lifestyle magazine.
✴As editor of the magazine's website, plentymag.com, was commissioning editor of a daily 800-word feature, and edited and managed a roster of blogs.
✴Was conceiving total a redesign of the website in concert with outside design experts when the company suddenly and unexpectedly went out of business.

Men’s Journal magazine (New York, NY) | Articles Editor | 2007 - 2008

✴Top-level editor in a 25-person editorial department at the fastest-growing men’s magazine, with a 750,000 rate base. Edited monthly environmental column as well as features.
✴Wrote two features in 2008, including a Q&A with Keith Olbermann that was picked up by the New York Daily News, Gawker, TVNewser and Fox News, among others.

Radar magazine (New York, NY) | Articles Editor | 2007

✴Three-month assignment editing features and writing for the ASME-nominated magazine and its website.

Seed magazine (New York, NY) | Senior Editor | 2005 - 2006

✴Senior editor in a 13-person editorial department at science-culture magazine with a 192,000 circulation base.
✴Top-edited the entire 96-page magazine and wrote/selected nearly all the magazine's display copy.
✴Conceived, solicited, edited and re-wrote features and shorter front-of-book pieces.
✴Seed was nominated for general excellence in the 2007 National Magazine Awards. It was also recognized for best science/technology coverage, and nominated for general excellence, in the 2006 Independent Press Awards. One of the articles I edited was included in the 2007 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton-Mifflin).

KCRW/PRI (Santa Monica, CA) | Producer | 2004

✴Produced long- and short-form segments for two daily radio current-affairs programs: “To the Point,” covering national and international news and heard by over 300,000 listeners daily; and “Which Way L.A.?,” the premier public-affairs program in Southern California.
✴Responsible for 2-5 segments per week; conceived and developed program ideas; researched topics; and pre-interviewed a broad range of notable guests such as UN Under Secretary General Jan Egeland, Congressmen Henry Waxman and Christopher Shays, Sen. Gary Hart, 9/11 victims’ families, and journalists reporting live from Iraq.
✴The programs multiple L.A. Press Club Awards in 2004.

Might Magazine (San Francisco, CA) | Senior Editor | 1993 - 1997

✴Senior editor of the national independent general-interest bimonthly.
✴Might was named the 19th best magazine of all time by Good and one of Library Journal’s Ten Best Magazines for 1994; also the only dual nominee in the 1997 Independent Press Awards. Drawing heavily on the influence of early Spy and Monty Python, Might also ran serious items on politics, policy and culture, re-defining Generation X.
✴Wrote or edited numerous cover stories; conceived, edited and assigned at least one feature in every issue, covering a wide range of subjects; edited the reviews sections.
✴Produced the entire critically-acclaimed 72-page bi-monthly with a staff of 4-6.
✴Rose from featured contributor [1993] to associate editor [1994] to senior editor [1995-97].

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) | BA in History | 1992

✴Honor Society invitee

Technical: Proficient with Mac and PC; MS Office; InCopy and InDesign; Dalet sound-editing software.

Languages: basic French