Josh Schollmeyer Email & Phone Number

Josh Schollmeyer was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of MEL, which the New York Times called “the rare men’s magazine that has taken upon itself to investigate masculinity, not enforce it. It gets double points for managing to pull off that project with style and charm, not self-seriousness.” Many others said nice things about MEL, too, but this is still his favorite. On an individual level, MEL was cited by everyone from The Rock to the biggest political luminary of our time — Stormy Daniels. It was also included on a recent episode of "The Simpsons." Previously, Schollmeyer dreamt up the popular Kinja site Playboy SFW, an effort to bring back the brand’s commitment to social-sexual values (but with a 21st century sensibility), and the ebook series “50 Years of the Playboy Interview,” which involved the release of 50 Kindle Singles in 50 days and culminated in the publication of myriad compilations of the magazine’s iconic interview subjects. Similarly, he helped make The Chicagoan, a coffee-table-book like magazine that doubled as a love letter to his hometown and that sold out in under a month. He’s written a bunch of stuff as well, most notably, the best-selling ebook “Enemies, A Love Story,” about the bromance between dueling film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. (The Atlantic included it as one of the 10 Best Oral Histories from 2012 You Haven't Had Time to Read Yet — admittedly, it was very long.) He later served as a producer on the Steve James-directed Ebert documentary, “Life Itself,” which was short-listed for an Oscar and won an Emmy (or halfway to an EGOT). His work has also been selected to appear in the Best American Writing Series, and his time as an editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists resulted in it winning a National Magazine Award for General Excellence (The NYT headline that time around: “4 Editors, an Art Director and a Shot at the Magazine Title”). He was most recently named to AdWeek's Creative 100 in the media innovators category and included as a finalist for Digiday's Publishing Exec of the Year.

Listed skills include Editorial, Magazines, Editing, Copy Editing, and 10 others.

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  University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Print/News Editorial Journalism