Ryan Gajewski Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Edit and write news articles about celebrities, TV/film projects, and the media, including flagging news and trends, composing headlines, following SEO and analytics, publishing in CMS, and promoting on social media
• Contribute to meetings with both the TV team and general editorial to guide coverage of upcoming projects
• Pitch and oversee long-form projects, including authoring an oral history of Deadpool for its 5th anniversary

• Oversaw all entertainment content for Playboy’s magazine and website: set editorial calendar, assigned news coverage and features, evaluated pitches, wrote and edited text, wrote headlines, approved art, and published.
• Wrote long-form print stories for Playboy magazine, including choosing the celebrities to feature in-book, handling outreach with their publicists, setting up photo shoots, and guiding social media promotion on all.
• The features that I wrote on Ezra Miller and Thomas Middleditch went viral, with both stories leading to countless news headlines that spurred nationwide attention and debate
• Hired and managed over 70 staff and freelance writers/reporters while handling freelancer contracts and rates
• Developed content strategy and branding initiatives to support Playboy’s e-commerce business; also developed strategy that increased Playboy digital subscribers by 30 percent and added 4 million social followers
• Maintained relationships with studio and personal reps to set up features and interviews for film/TV/awards/music/books

• Wrote and edited news stories, reported features, analysis, and celebrity profiles for film/TV/music/awards
• Set up and conducted interviews with such stars as Mandy Moore, Keri Russell, Trevor Noah, Brian Tyree Henry, Sarah Silverman, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown
• Connected with publicists, agents, insiders, and studio/network reps to break stories and get reporting
• Closely monitored traffic with Parsely, Chartbeat, and Google Analytics, plus handled social promotion
• Attended press events, including premieres, San Diego Comic-Con and TCA, for interviews and news

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed the launch of Us Weekly's digital entertainment and election vertical, including assigning and editing every film and TV story, approving headlines, and promoting stories on Twitter and Facebook using Social Flow
• Wrote breaking news articles, follow-ups, and features, along with contributing to the weekly print issues
• Hired, supervised, and edited 10+ freelancers who wrote TV recaps and analysis
• Worked with network, studio, and talent publicists on exclusive announcements, previews, and interviews

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Wrote breaking news and features for print and digital, and built strong relationships with studios/publicists
• Ran coverage of numerous TV shows, including breaking exclusive casting news and conducting interviews
• Edited all stories, curated home page, managed social accounts, trained editorial hires, and composed daily newsletter as lead editor

• Pitched, wrote and edited entertainment news stories, interviews, TV recaps, and features

• Wrote features and profiles, selected interview subjects, edited and assigned stories for the digital publication