Working with authors, publishers, literary agencies, and media companies to empower and protect intellectual property in the new world of AI. Responsibilities include safeguarding their work; identifying new opportunities; helping them control if, when, and how that work is used; and ensuring they profit from it.

Founder Jon Krakauer and I are in the early stages of conceiving, launching, and growing a new nonprofit whose mission is to train, mentor, and support talented young journalists devoted to mastering investigative reporting and ambitious narrative nonfiction writing that can make a difference in the world. Through a series of fully-funded workshops and more, we’ll be working with our Assignment fellows on deep, challenging investigations and complex, meaningful stories at a time when there has never been a greater need for just that.

Annual three-day gathering of 12,000+ festivalgoers to celebrate the power of story to bridge divides and build community. Among the many bestselling, prize-winning authors hosted thus far are Margaret Atwood, Colson Whitehead, Colum McCann, Jennifer Egan, N. Scott Momaday, John Grisham, Ed Yong, George RR Martin, Gillian Flynn, Valeria Luiselli, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jon Krakauer, Sandra Cisneros, Emily St. John Mandel, Don Winslow, Lawrence Wright, Joy Harjo, Phil Klay, Luis Alberto Urrea, Namwali Serpell, Beth Macy, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, David Treuer, Ashley C. Ford, Laila Lalami, David Quammen, Hampton Sides, Manuel Muñoz, Deborah Taffa, Douglas Preston, Kirsten Valdez Quade, and Yvon Chouinard. Authors coming to the 2024 Festival (May 17-19) include Jesmyn Ward, Tracy K. Smith, David Grann, Anthony Doerr, Hua Hsu, Julia Alvarez, Patrick Radden Keefe, Tommy Orange, Javier Zamora, Kai Bird, John Vaillant, Anne Lamott, Diana Gabaldon, Douglas Preston, Jenn Shapland, Jamie Figueroa, Roxana Robinson, Arthur Sze, and many more.The Festival is also working with a number of nonprofits—schools and colleges, libraries, literacy programs, and our international partner, Narrative 4—with the aim of creating year-round impact in New Mexico communities and beyond.

Provide strategic advice and service across a range of digital and print media companies. This includes leading product launches, advising on startups and turnarounds , developing cross-platform content strategies, crafting mission and brand identities, recruiting talent, hands-on writing and editing, and managing both in-house and off-site staff. Past and present clients include Scribd, The New York Times, Conde Nast, Hearst, IAC, IDG, the National Geographic Society, Radish, and the USA Bid Committee (re: the 2022 FIFA World Cup bid), among others.

Lead narrative nonfiction classes in Colorado College's Journalist-in-Residence Program. Responsibilities include teaching a range of nonfiction writing classes; recruiting fellow writers, editors, filmmakers, and producers to teach; and bringing celebrated authors to the program's visiting lecturer series. Visiting speakers have included Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barry Lopez, Roxane Gay, Pamela Colloff, Jon Krakauer, Peter Heller, Tim Cahill, Michael Paterniti, and Dave Philipps, among others.

Brought in as consultant to conceive, launch, and manage an ambitious imprint called Scribd Originals (now Everand Originals), publishing fiction and nonfiction by both leading and emerging authors. Most of the work thrives in the space between magazines and full-length books and is available in ebook and audiobook. Our small, highly experienced team of editors has published work by Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Paul Theroux, Ada Limón, Charles Yu, Garrett Graff, Hampton Sides, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Anne Helen Peterson, Chuck Palahniuk, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Richard Russo, Bonnie Tsui, Peter Heller, Todd Balf, Scott Simon, Jaqueline Woodson, Carmen Maria Machaco, Kiese Laymon, Kurt Eichenwald, and many others.

Co-founded Byliner, a digital publisher and subscription reading service, to pioneer digital storytelling in the space between magazines and books. After ten months, Fast Company named Byliner "one of the ten most innovative media companies in the world."Developed and directed the Byliner Originals program: new short fiction and nonfiction work by bestselling and emerging authors. Nonfiction included work by Ann Patchett, Jon Krakauer, Alexandra Fuller, Mark Bittman, Buzz Bissinger, Simon Winchester, Walter Kirn, David Leonhardt, and William Langewiesche. Among the Fiction Originals were stories by Nick Hornby, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Richard Powers, Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, Nicole Krauss, Richard Russo, Maile Meloy, and Jess Walter.Published dozens of bestselling titles, including Jon Krakauer's Three Cups of Deceit, the No. 1 title, print of digital, on Amazon for weeks; and Elizabeth Kaye's Lifeboat No. 8, the first e-short to reach No. 1 on the New York Times e-book bestseller list. Several Originals were developed into bestselling full-length books, including Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last, Alexandra Fuller's Leaving Before the Rains Come, and Joy Williams's Ninety-Nine Stories of God, which Publishers Weekly named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year.Eight Originals were optioned for film or tv. Jonathan Ames's You Were Never Really Here became the 2017 thriller of the same name. Taylor Branch's The Cartel formed the basis of the documentary Schooled: The Price of College Sports.Established co-publishing partnerships with The New York Times, Esquire, The Atlantic, New York, McSweeney's, and The Millions.Led efforts to recruit more than 450 authors to Byliner's subscription reading service. Byliner was sold to MacMillan Publishers in 2014.

Conceived and edited Play, a spinoff of the The New York Times Magazine. Published David Foster Wallace, Michael Lewis, Chuck Klosterman, Mary Roach, Joe Nocera, Sara Corbett, Sean Wilsey, Jonathan Mahler, Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch, Mimi Swartz, Dexter Filkins, Tommy Craggs, Hampton Sides, and Tom Bissell, among many others. Featured the work of photographers Andres Serrano, Platon, Massimo Vitali, Finlay MacKay, Lynsey Addario, Simon Norfolk, Danielle Levitt, Larry Sultan, Olaf Blecker, Paolo Pellegrin, and Dan Winters.In its first year of eligibility, Play was named a finalist in General Excellence in the 2008 National Magazine Awards. It also won several design and photography awards.Consulted for the New York Times Company on other digital and print matters.

Acquired, edited, and published a range of nonfiction—politics, current events, memoir, narrative, history, and biography—as well as some literary fiction. Authors included Denis Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Korda, Daniel Coyle, Michael Finkel, Karl Taro Greenfeld, and Fiammetta Rocco. New York Times bestsellers included Daniel Coyle's Lance Armstrong's War, Robert F. Kennedy's Crimes Against Nature, and Katrina Heron's, Evan Ratliff's and Oliver Morton's Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World. Michael Finkel's True Story was subsequently made into the 2015 feature film of the same name.

Led Men's Journal to a 2001 National Magazine Award nomination for General Excellence (in the 400,000 to 1 million circulation category).Introduced new departments and sections, redesigned others, and published features by Dave Eggers, George Plimpton, Sebastian Junger, Richard Ford, Pankaj Mishra, Chris Heath, P.J. O'Rourke, Paul Theroux, Scott Anderson, Tim Cahill, and Jim Harrison. Short fiction by Anthony Swofford led to his bestselling book, Jarhead, which was then made into a film of the same name. A feature by Doug Stanton led to his bestselling book In Harm's Way, and another by Chip Brown was expanded into the critically acclaimed Good Morning, Midnight.Advertising pages increased by 8.9 percent, making Men's Journal the second-leading men's magazine in total ad pages at the time. In first six months newsstand sales increased 18 percent and total readership increased 20 percent.

As editor from 1990 to 1999, directed Outside to a record three consecutive National Magazine Awards for General Excellence (in the 400,000 to 1 million circulation category) in 1996, 1997, and 1998. During my nine years as editor, Outside also won National Magazine Awards for Reporting (1997) and Special Interests (1994), and was named a finalist for 16 of these awards—at least one every year.Published a number of young journalists who went on to become bestselling authors, including Jon Krakauer, Sebastian Junger, Hampton Sides, Michael Paterniti, Sara Corbett, Daniel Coyle, Florence Williams, Miles Harvey, Randy Wayne White, and E. Jean Carroll. Also had the good fortune to work with such celebrated writers as Bill Bryson, Annie Proulx, James Salter, Susan Orlean, Robert Stone, Ian Frazier, David Quammen, Don Katz, Francisco Goldman, Jane Smiley, Scott Anderson, William Burroughs, and Stephen King.Among the bestselling books that grew out of our stories were Krakauer's Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, Junger's The Perfect Storm, Susan Orlean’s The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, and Miles Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps. Films adapted from Outside stories included Krakauer's Into the Wild, Orlean’s Blue Crush, and Junger's The Perfect Storm.While Outside's editor, print advertising rose 56 percent and ad revenues grew 394 percent. Paid circulation grew 69 percent.Oversaw several editorial brand extensions: a website partnership with Starwave Corporation; books with Simon & Schuster, W.W. Norton, and Frommer's; the launch of Outside Women and Outside Kids; and a series of newsstand specials. Prior to becoming Outside's editor, I served as its associate, senior, then managing editor.