AARON GELL
aaron.gell@gmail.com; www.aarongell.com
E M P L O Y M E N T
MANAGING EDITOR, Observer.com, August 2010–present
Oversee team of bloggers covering a wide array of content channels: Wall St., media, tech, culture, real estate and politics.
Conceive feature stories, columns and franchises.
Help guide redesign of site; conceive new editorial vision for each channel; develop seo and social media strategy.
EDITOR IN CHIEF, Hemispheres magazine, Ink Publishing, December 2008–August 2010
Reconceived and relaunched United Airlines’ monthly inflight magazine.
Oversaw all editorial content; supervised edit staff and art department.
Interfaced with United Airlines corporate officers and Ink advertising department; attended ad calls.
Administered magazine’s website.
Represented magazine in media interviews.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, Radar magazine, December 2006–October 2008
Conceived, assigned and edited feature and FOB stories for national monthly magazine.
Responsible for leading editorial staff and supervising art department.
Assisted editor-in-chief in developing magazine’s editorial vision and voice.
Booked celebrity interviews; appeared on television and radio to publicize magazine.
Held primary responsibility for supervising successful March ’07 relaunch.
EDITOR, Radaronline.com, August 2006–December 2006
Helped conceive successful launch of Radar’s website, which drew 1 million unique visitors in its first month.
Assigned and edited daily web features.
WRITER (Freelance), 1991–present
Vanity Fair, New York, GQ, Elle, Oprah, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Details, Salon, Travel+Leisure and NPR’s “On the Media.”
SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR, W magazine, April 2000–July 2004
Conceived, assigned and edited feature articles on the arts, celebrity and society.
Planed and wrote monthly “Critical Eye” column, covering books, film, music, art and TV.
SENIOR EDITOR, Mirabella, August 1999–April 2000
Assigned and edited feature articles and columns; edited front-of-book arts and culture section, “Intelligent Life.”
FILM EDITOR, Time Out New York, August 1996–August 1999
Conceived and planned film coverage for a weekly entertainment magazine.
Booked celebrities for cover stories and profiles; supervised three-person editorial staff.
E D U C A T I O N
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Bachelor of Fine Arts, with Honors. Major in Film, with writing emphasis.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA. Major in English.
