Tracy E. Gilchrist Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Spearhead print and digital content for the world's most influential and longest-running LGBTQ+ publication to achieve editorial, sales, and publicity goals.• Apply top-notch time management techniques to juggle an extensive list of deadlines and projects in various phases of completion in digital and print.• Lead a staff of writers, copy editors, social media editors, designers, and production editors in creating a bi-monthly magazine and creating digital content for a site with a reach of 2.2 million. • Manage multiple editorial calendars, marketing strategies, and multimedia partnerships.• Communicate extensively with social media manager, production and design teams, publicists, and corporate leaders to achieve goals.• Moderate panel discussions on LGBTQ+ and social justice topics including marriage equality and reproductive freedom, and attend junkets, perform interviews, and act as the face of the brand.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Connect news made in politics or entertainment to a feminist perspective.• Scour the news every morning and find the best moments worthy of a story.• Develop and maintain a network of both paid and unpaid freelance writers.• Build and maintain relationships with key publicists and figures around LGBTQ visibility. • Act as the first editor on breaking news whenever a story is on the feminism beat.• Increase the quality of all stories via pre-editing, direct editing, and feedback. • Act as lead writer, taking on many of our best and most timely centerpieces or op-eds.• Represent The Advocate as a panel moderator for TV and film including for films like 'The Favourite,' 'Boy Erased,' and 'Booksmart' and for TV including 'Tales of the City' and 'Euphoria.'• Cohost The Advocates podcast.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Connect news made in politics or entertainment to a feminist perspective.• Scour the news every morning and find the best moments worthy of a story.• Develop and maintain a network of both paid and unpaid freelance writers.• Build and maintain relationships with key publicists and figures around LGBTQ visibility. • Act as the first editor on breaking news whenever a story is on the feminism beat.• Increase the quality of all stories via pre-editing, direct editing, and feedback. • Act as lead writer, taking on many of our best and most timely centerpieces or op-eds.• Represent The Advocate as a panel moderator for TV and film including for films like 'The Favourite,' 'Boy Erased,' and 'Booksmart' and for TV including 'Tales of the City' and 'Euphoria.'• Cohost The Advocates podcast.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Oversaw the Associate Editor in creating content that best fit PRIDE’s goals to expand the reach of the target audience.• Acted as the assigning editor for PRIDE stories, overseeing a team of freelance writers and photographers who adhered to an editorial calendar created by the Deputy Editor. • Acted as the first editor on many articles, including strong pre-editing and regular feedback to freelancers on what has worked or not worked, according to standards and statistics about readership. • Acted as a top writer for PRIDE, taking on some of its best and most timely centerpieces, slideshows, lists or commentaries.• Monitored news sites and leading publications on a daily basis for events and stories that were trending. Drove breaking news to be posted quickly and with a PRIDE approach to storytelling, often stepping in to do this work directly rather than waiting.

Los Angeles

• Responsible for the launch of SheWired.com, an internationally known and highly visited website under the Advocate Group umbrella that generated 1.7 visits and 3.5 million page views per month• Curated content daily for the site that focuses primarily on film, television, and music • Managed a team of up to 12 staff writers, editorial staff, freelance writers, photographers, and videographers• Implemented fresh content to meet the interests of internet users including building quizzes and creating GIFs and memes • Built and maintained relationships with publicists primarily in the entertainment field to ensure timely, buzz-worthy stories• Collaborated with the IT and marketing and publicity teams on search engine optimization, keywording of content and outreach to social networking sites• Reported on events including film festivals, screenings, and television panels • Managed, maintained and grew social networking audiences of a combined 50,000 followers on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr , Instagram and Pinterest • Acted as a spokesperson and expert on relevant topics with appearances on programs including Sirius Radio and E! News

Manchester, Connecticut

Covered town news for a paper in Connecticut with 40,000 readers. Reported on town and Board of Education meeting, covered breaking news, and wrote features on community members.