I am an accomplished media professional with experience writing and editing narrative-style features and punchier, short items for marquee magazines; producing daily news for public radio; managing a news website; and blogging professionally.
I have written for New York, The New Yorker, Columbia Journalism Review, Wired, Sierra, The L.A. Times Magazine, New York Daily News, Brill's Content, Men's Journal, Psychology Today, Bon Appetit and others. I've also appeared as a news commentator on NPR's "Morning Edition," Monitor Radio and KFOG-San Francisco, and my writing has been anthologized in five books from major publishers. Clips are at http://paultullis.net.
I was senior editor of the science magazine Seed the year it received its only National Magazine Award nomination and won its only Independent Press Award. One of the articles I edited was included in the 2007 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton-Mifflin). Transliterating research findings into prose that's understandable to the lay reader and a pleasure to read -- without dumbing down-- was a key component of my work at Seed and my subsequent and ongoing work in environmental journalism.
I was most recently articles editor of the environmental bimonthly Plenty and editor of the magazine's website. Prior to that I worked as articles editor of Men's Journal, where I oversaw the magazine's environmental coverage, edited features and wrote two features in 2008. In each of these positions I supervised junior staff and worked closely with the art and research departments.
In 2004 I was a producer for KCRW-Santa Monica's respected current-affairs discussion programs, “To The Point" and "Which Way, L.A.?" Among my duties were conceiving topics, conducting research, pre-interviewing a broad array of notable guests and feeding the host questions while producing the segment live. Sometimes a program had to be produced in just a few hours in response to breaking news; deadline pressure was intense. “To The Point” won the L.A. Press Club Award for Best News Bureau for programs produced while I was on staff.
A year out of college, I was among the founding staff of Might, an acclaimed, independent, national general-interest bimonthly. I wrote and edited items of all lengths for the magazine, including cover stories. Might was the only dual-category nominee in the 1997 Independent Press Awards, and was recently named the 19th "greatest magazine of all time" by a panel of industry experts.
Editors I've worked with will speak of the quality and prescience of my story ideas; the thoroughness of my reporting and elegance of my prose; and my ability to produce tight copy in a flash. Having lived in California for 20 years I am well-versed in its politics, policy issues, media and population.
