Chris J. Magyar

Writing – Editing – Design – Web

Employment

Managing Editor - Austin Monthly

Austin, TX (2009 – 2010)

+ Wrote and edited articles in all sections of the magazine
+ Generated story ideas and managed monthly story lists
+ Oversaw and maintained production deadlines from draft to print
+ Managed assistant editor, interns and stable of freelance writers
+ Edited and corrected InDesign files for press upload
+ Assisted with promotional efforts including radio and television appearances
+ Created procedures and database for tracking article draft progress
+ Established new strategic content approach in Talk, Scene, Travel and Dining

Austin Monthly is the city’s premier subscription magazine.

News & Web Editor – Good Times / gtweekly.com

Santa Cruz, CA (2006 – 2009)

+ Edited weekly publication’s news section
+ Wrote articles for news, music, dining, features, business, and cover sections
+ Won 4 California Newspaper Association (CNPA) awards in business, sports, and feature writing
+ Created dynamic, interactive web site from scratch with a $0 budget
+ Implemented content migration schematic between online and print editions
+ Optimized site for search engines via daily updates and keyword placement
+ Assigned and edited blogs on food, comic books, yoga, art, and web culture
+ Created PHP/MySQL database for automatically handling events listings input by readers
+ Designed movie times listing and club grid typography
+ Initiated and managed several contests and special events
+ Represented magazine at public functions and in media relations

Founded in 1975, Good Times is Santa Cruz County’s largest and most venerable weekly publication, with a circulation much higher than the local daily newspaper. In 2007, GT won CNPA’s General Excellence award, besting major weeklies in San Francisco and LA.

Production Editor – Platts (McGraw-Hill)

Boulder, CO (2002 – 2004)

+ Handled layout, design, copy editing, and prepress for three energy industry magazines
+ Performed database import of XML data into Quark for publication
+ Created and maintained databases for tracking of advertisement materials

Platts is the energy industry information arm of McGraw-Hill, and published at that time Power Magazine, Energy Business & Technology, and dozens of essential industry newsletters.

Editor-in-Chief – Go-Go Magazine

Denver, CO (1999 – 2001)

+ Wrote articles on all facets of arts and culture for an exploding downtown scene
+ Assigned stories and columns to a large stable of freelance writers
+ Created and maintained database of calendar events
+ Assisted with business planning and execution
+ Represented magazine in public functions and in media relations

Go-Go Magazine was a start-up, bi-weekly arts & entertainment magazine covering downtown Denver, with an emphasis on youth culture and cutting-edge art.

Education

Master of Arts program – The University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia (2004 – 2005)

+ Writing, Editing, and Publishing program with Dr. Roslyn Petelin
+ Edited department newsletter for UQ’s English section
+ Fiction Editor of college literary magazine, pulling in submissions from the entire Commonwealth
+ Wrote book reviews for M/C Reviews, a Queensland academic journal
+ Worked at Rich Vein Productions, a start-up entertainment promotion company
+ Designed Rich Vein logo, website, and company marketing materials, and created business plans
+ Implemented weekly film event, and compiled and designed grant proposals for film projects

The University of Queensland is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious universities, home to one of the only graduate programs in the world dedicated solely to the publishing industry. Rich Vein is still going strong in Brisbane, managing music and film projects.

Bachelor of Arts – The Colorado College

Colorado Springs, CO (1996 – 1999)

+ English major, Creative Writing program
+ Editor-in-Chief of school literary magazine
+ Recipient of Ebey Novella Prize

The Colorado College is a small liberal arts school using the unusual method of block learning — one class at a time — to foster an environment of concentrated study and continuous academic curiosity.

Web Projects

GTweekly.com

+Built from scratch with Joomla content management system
+Doubled traffic in first year, with numbers still increasing steadily
+Used available freeware to construct fully interactive site at no cost
+Site boasts 2,000 newsletter subscribers and nearly 3,000 registered users
+Integrated daily updates with print edition’s weekly publication schedule
+Regularly featured articles on Google News and Yahoo News

Jabootu.net

+Content migration and redesign of eight-year-old site
+Set-up and training using popular WordPress content management system
+Web hosting set-up and troubleshooting
+Occasional writing

DaVinciSociety.org

+Set-up and design for 57-year-old social club’s web presence
+Training (to novice computer users) on self-updating website using WordPress
+Customizing of event calendar plug-in to suit client’s needs

SCH3.net

+Content migration and re-design of Santa Cruz Hash House Harriers web presence
+Set-up of custom Joomla plugins to allow for group communication and planning
+Integration with club’s existing Flickr and newsletter accounts

SantaCruzRollerGirls.com

+Set-up for brand new roller derby league’s web presence
+Content management system training on popular Joomla platform