Cari Wira Dineen
616 Benson Place• Westfield, NJ, 07090 • 917.495.6040 • cwdineen@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
10/2010-Present: Freelance Writer, Editor, and Social Media Manager
• Pitch and write parenting, lifestyle, sex, health, finance, and personal essays for magazines and websites. Placements include Cosmopolitan,
Women’s Health, Parade, Woman’s Day, American Baby, Fitness, NY Post, Parents.com, Weightwatchers.com, HGTV.com, and Care.com.
• Editor-at-Large for Dailyworth.com. Brainstorm, write, assign and edit content for lifestyle edition, MoreWorth.
• Contributing editor to NJmomsguide.com and NJ Moms Guide.
• East Coast Social Media Manager for Tres Chic Media. Maintain Facebook and Twitter profiles for high-profile fashion clients.
• Maintain relationships with editors, publicists, and industry experts.
Hearst Magazines
11/2006—9/2010: Senior Editor, Redbook
• Assigned and edited all relationship and sex features. Also edited parenting, money, health, career, travel, and other well-features.
• Conceived and edited recurring columns: “The Whys Guy” by Aaron Traister and “Mind Over Money” by Beth Kobliner.
• Worked on different partnerships, including those tied to annual Strength and Spirit Awards and Hot Husbands Contest.
• Wrote popular anonymous relationship blog “Hot and Bothered” for redbookmag.com.
• Wrote coverlines, pitched new writers and ideas, managed assistants, oversaw excerpts, and top-edited some copy written in-house.
• Maintained features inventory, relationships with freelance writers, and publicists. Media-trained and appeared on local news segments.
Hachette Filipacchi Media
8/2004-9/2006: Senior Editor, For Me magazine
• Edited, assigned and wrote front-of-book, travel, relationship, psychology, money, health, and career features.
• Top-edited entire book (over 75 editorial pages, 12 issues per year).
• Wrote and appeared in monthly “Budget Babe” shopping and money-saving column.
• Drafted coverlines and worked with the editor-in-chief and publisher on promotional ideas.
• Organized and assisted on photo shoots and reviewed art with art director and photo editor.
• Developed magazine’s original concept and test issue for corporate presentation.
• Appeared on TBS Movie and a Makeover, Good Morning America, and various local TV and radio outlets.
• Awarded “Star Employee” by CEO Jack Kliger for work with launch.
9/2002-12/2004: Features & Reader Editor, Woman's Day
• As three-focused editor, juggled features, entertainment, and reader involvement in magazine.
• Top-edited parenting, gardening, and travel columns.
• As entertainment editor, conceptualized new celebrity-driven articles.
• Packaged, pitched, assigned, and edited features while building freelancer bank.
• Regularly wrote travel, health, lifestyle, and relationship articles, as well as monthly tips column.
• Coordinated and traveled to oversee real people photo shoots and reviewed art for stories.
1/2000-9/2002: Assistant Features Editor, Woman's Day
• Co-edited three regular columns, including parenting and tips column.
• Assigned and top-edited short articles, profiles and features.
• Reported and wrote articles on parenting, health, lifestyle and travel.
• Supported senior features editor with production of FOB columns, parenting section, and features.
• Co-organized annual Woman's Day Awards, an award luncheon honoring volunteerism, including former First Lady Laura Bush.
Fairchild Publications
8/1998-12/1999: Office Assistant, Children's Business
• Supported staff of 5 while assisting publisher and editor-in-chief of children’s fashion magazine.
• Coordinated with clothing manufacturers and retailers on advertising plans for magazine.
• Attended fashion shows, show rooms and trade markets.
• Wrote advertorial, promotional and some editorial copy.
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism/Political Science, 1998