Sona Charaipotra
New York, NY
currently: Open for projects
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Work history
Editorial Director
tags:
web
• producing
• editing
• digital
• writing
How would you describe your time at IshqInABackpack.com?
Co-founded a website that's part blog, part travel and entertainment portal, to document an extended travel experience through India via blogs, articles, video and photo galleries.
Senior Editor
tags:
cms
• entertainment
• editing
• management
• writing
• web
How would you describe your time at TeenPeople.com?
Managed a staff of five in producing, writing and editing daily content including featues, galleries and video for a major teen web site. Booked celebrity talent, reported, wrote and edited features, produced video segments. Uploaded fresh content daily via content management system.
Writer/Editor
tags:
entertainment
• gossip
• editing
• booking
• writing
• celebrity
How would you describe your time at american media?
Wrote features, including cover stories, from reporters??? files for Celebrity Living and Star magazines. Edited features and Q&As for the back-of-the-book entertainment features.
Researched and composed write-around entertainment features.
Freelance Writer
tags:
travel
• reporting
• editing
• production
• media
• writing
• celebrity
• web
• entertainment
• booking
• magazines
How would you describe your time at Independent Contractor?
Pitch, book, report and write stories for print and online publications including People, Teen People, MTV.com, Inside TV, NJ Monthly, East-West, ETS, Modern Bride, YM, AOL and others. Editorial director of travel blog www.IshqInABackpack.com
Senior Entertainment Editor
tags:
editorial
• writing
• editing
• celebrity
• management
• teen
• content
How would you describe your time at Teen People Magazine?
-Assigned, edited and coordinated production of celebrity feature coverage for a 1.2 million circulation teen glossy, including acts and FOB sections, negotiating access with publcists. Coordinate reporting from bureaus and freelancers. Reported and wrote celebrity features, cover stories, write-arounds, round-ups and quizzes.... 
Reporter
tags:
entertainment
• writing
• celebrity
• content
• editing
• fact-checking
• gossip
• magazine
• reporting
• booking
How would you describe your time at People Magazine?
Managed, coordinated and assigned reporting to eight bureaus for Bachelors issue.
-Negotiated and booked celebrity access with publicists.
-Reported and wrote profiles for 50 Most Beautiful and Bachelors issues.
-Pitched, reported and wrote features, focusing on entertainment beat. Wrote stories from reporters??? files. Wrote music reviews.
-Scheduled music reviews and front-of-the-book features; coordinated layouts and closes with art and photo; maintained release calendar.
-Pitched and reported stories for People and affiliated publications. Covered events, junkets, breaking news and interviewed celebrities for profiles.
-Fact-checked stories for accuracy, style and content....
Education
Dramatic Writing and South Asian Diaspora Studies
tags:
screenwriting
• producing
How would you describe your time at new york university?
Masters in Dramatic Writing with a full-length feature script for my thesis project, which was later optioned in L.A.
Journalism and American Studies
tags:
screenwriting
• writing
• editing
• journalism
How would you describe your time at Rutgers University?
BA in Journalism and American Studies with High Honors. Completed Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis in American Studies.
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