Kathleen Baxter Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

✧ Copy edit for clarity, format, grammar, punctuation, spelling, syntax, substance, and style.✧ Fact-check.✧ Verify references and links.✧ Edit contributor biographies.

✧ Edit for voice, tone, structure, and impact.✧ Edit to achieve the target grade-level readability while retaining accuracy and reader interest.✧ Edit interview transcripts into Q&A features.✧ Write headlines, deks, and ledes.

✧ Copy edit for clarity, format, grammar, punctuation, spelling, syntax, substance, and style.✧ Products include websites, slideshows, newsletters, magazines, annual reports, press releases, marketing collateral, and white papers, among other formats, for a range of industries and content types.✧ Corporate and e-commerce clients have included Acorda Therapeutics, Athene, Conrad Hotels, goop, Linkwell Health, NYC Tourism + Conventions, Panera Bread, Ralph Lauren, Sodexo, State Street Global Advisors, Waldorf Astoria Hotels, Wealthsimple, Whole Foods Market✧ Nonprofit clients have included AARP, Hospital for Special Surgery, Noguchi Museum, Success Academy Charter Schools✧ Digital media and print clients have included Allure, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast special issues, Contract, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, HGTV Magazine, Latina, Lucky, Men's Health special issues, Mental Floss, New York, Prevention special issues, Runner's World special issues, Self, Shape, Teen Vogue, Time Books special issues, Women's Health special issues

✧ Edit for voice, tone, structure, and current messaging.✧ Rewrite and revise to increase clarity, understanding, readability, and impact.✧ Collaborate with staff writers to communicate complex topics in plainlanguage. ✧ Copy edit for style, grammar, spelling, and substance. ✧ Review a diverse range of fundraising products, including proposals, newsletters, videos, email mass communications, webpages, social media posts, digital advertising, and stewardship reports. ✧ Write and maintain the department’s first comprehensive style guide.

✧ Copy edit varied marketing and communications materials, including blog posts, webpages, annual reports, quarterly magazines, newsletters, internal communications and intranet pages, and other collateral.

Allure magazine✧ Copy edit for grammar, spelling, substance, and style for the print magazine, website, and tablet edition.✧ Track magazine stories through all stages.

✧ Monitor all assignments, with detailed status tracking and reporting for designated clients.✧ Review and approve invoices.✧ Create a system to calculate profit margins across multiple projects and provide monthly reports. ✧ Post content to client CMS.

Teen Vogue magazine✧ Manage and report on the current editorial budget, including implementing cost-cutting measures to meet executive directives.✧ Prepare the editorial budget for the following year and present it to the executive team.✧ Oversee schedules, internal deadlines, and lineup updates.✧ Review all layouts.✧ Review and approve all invoices and expense reports.

Best Lawyers/Top Ranked Lawyers publications✧ Coordinate client materials, traffic proofs, and orchestrate the approval process.✧ Commission freelance writers and photographers. ✧ Copy edit and fact-check all content.

✧ Serve as the key editorial traffic liaison between the client (SunTrust Bank), the lead developer (Meredith), and the editorial content producer (The Writing Company). ✧ Traffic 350 webpages for the relaunch of suntrust.com from the content strategy team, through writing and editing, to stakeholders for comments, revisions, and approval. ✧ Formulate the client review process and direct the editorial content management process via Basecamp.✧ Regularly report on content status, staffing levels, and schedule changes.

New York, Ny

Content Marketing and Custom Publishing✧ Manage content creation across multiple platforms. ✧ Establish, oversee, and enforce schedules and deadlines for editorial, art, photo, and production for multiple concurrent online and print projects. ✧ Manage and report on project budgets. ✧ Recruit, train, and manage freelance editorial staff. ✧ Manage the copy-editing and fact-checking processes. ✧ Participate in all phases of content review and approval. ✧ Coordinate internal and client approvals of editorial lineups, online content, manuscripts, layouts, and press proofs. ✧ Post content to CMS.

Content Marketing and Custom-Publishing Division✧ Copy edit Bloomingdale’s quarterly Little Brown Book, Tourneau’s annual Tourneau Times, and Lamaze’s annual Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond publications.✧ Oversee the editorial schedule, coordinate image delivery with the client and the client’s vendors, traffic layouts, and facilitate client approvals for Kraft’s South Beach Living publications.✧ Edit refreshed online content to maximize SEO and write metadata for Lamaze.com.

New York, Ny

Citigroup Pursuits, a luxury-lifestyle quarterly magazine for the top 50,000 high-net-worth clients of the Citigroup Private Bank and Smith Barney✧ Establish and oversee schedules for editorial, art, photo, advertising, production, and distribution. ✧ Manage and report on the budget. ✧ Manage contracts and release waivers. ✧ Recruit, train, and manage freelance editorial staff, including fact-checkers and copy editors. ✧ Participate in all phases of layout review and approval. ✧ Coordinate review and approval by executives, legal, and compliance. ✧ Create the issue map. ✧ Develop a communications plan to promote the publication throughout the company.✧ Act as the primary liaison for in-house departments and outside vendors, including the pre-press supplier, printer, and advertising sales agency.✧ Plan and run weekly staff meetings.✧ Negotiate terms with the pre-press supplier and printer.

New York, Ny

Every Day With Rachael Ray✧ Establish and oversee schedules for editorial, art, and photo.✧ Create, manage, and report on the editorial budget; monitor and report on the art budget. ✧ Create the issue map in conjunction with advertising and production. ✧ Oversee staffing issues: run meetings, supervise the editorial staff, create a growth plan, and recruit and manage freelance staff. ✧ Create and distribute the editorial contracts. ✧ Participate in all phases of layout review and approval.

New York, Ny

American Artist and Watercolor magazines✧ Commission, write, and edit features and departments.✧ Produce the multipage news section.✧ Edit recurring columns and manage freelance columnists. ✧ Monitor the production schedule.✧ Distribute, traffic, and correct layouts and press proofs. ✧ Copy edit and fact-check.✧ Coordinate reprint issues and circulation premiums.