Carine Roitfeld was a highly respected and well-connected fashion stylist with no experience in magazine editing when she took the job as editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris in early 2001.

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He did this for 38 years of editing the magazine, from 1961 to 1999.

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That was probably an accurate statement last time Brown was editing a weekly magazine, in the closing years of the 20th century.

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Years ago when I first started editing for Outdoor Life magazine my boss urged me to go.

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Ebert covered high school sports for a local paper at age 15 while also writing and editing his own science fiction fan magazine.

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Andy is now editing The Plunge, the hottest bridal magazine around, alongside Emily, her one-time Runway nemesis turned current BFF.

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Britt Aboutaleb, a style news editor for Elle magazine, oversees the news section of Elle.com, and spends about 60% of her day editing and then the rest of it working on writing Web site features.

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