I conceive, aquire, and edit two features an issue on everything from relationships to cultural trends to health. My stories have delved into emotional affairs, first loves, parenting, friendship, personality, the mind-body and psychoneuroimmunology realm, the heart-brain connection, the true health implications of optimism, telling the story of your life, multi-racial couples, Morgellons disease, and more.

As executive editor, I conceive of ideas for the entire magazine and then see them through every stage of production, from assigning and writing to editing, layout, and fact-check. Oversee junior staff, including senior and assistant editors as well as interns. Magazine covers lifestyle and health from stem-to-stern for breast cancer patients and survivors. Circulation 200,000.

• Converted the print magazine into a web-only venue, Omni Internet, one of the largest and most popular content destinations of the day. At Omni Internet, my goal was to reinvent magazine journalism for cyberspace --to create a living, web-based journalism of interactive, real-time content and communities.The launch of Omni Internet was covered in Media Week in 1996. The post-mortem appeared on Newsweek International's web site in 1998.
• Served as the magazine's lead feature acquisitions editor. In this capacity, I conceived, acquired, and edited (often rewrote without byline) many of the cover stories that drove newstand sales, and for which the magazine was best known.
• Served as environmental and Earth column editor for more than a decade.
• Edited several entire issues of the print version of Omni. My favorite such project was the October 1991 issue on the future of evolution, inspired by my science writing fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA:
  
  

  INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Omnibus and Table of Contents Feature: Natural Direction Skull & Bones by Jean M. Auel Secret Life of the Neanderthal Q&A: Chris Langton on Artificial Life Life According to Gaia Planit: An Evolutionary Board Game The Whole Evolution Almanac Fiction by Robert Silverberg Missing Link Cast in Stone: Pictorial The Crater that Killed the Dinosaurs

  
  
• Nurtured talented writers, some of them coming my way with virtually no experience but clear potential to be wonderful (with a bit of training and help). I often scoured the slush pile for these diamonds in the rough, starting them out with small "Continuum" articles of 300 words and moving them up slowly to columns and features as they aquired the reportorial and magazine writing crafts. Many of my "finds" are successful magazine journalists today.
• Edited the monthly Continuum section, 8-16 pages of science news that comprised the best-read part of the magazine under my stewardship.
• Served as anomalies editor, lending a skeptical and hard-boiled approach to all such articles that I acquired and saw through the editorial process. From debunking "China's armpit psychics" to finding the "missing nurses of Roswell," I made sure that, on my watch, Omni subscribed to the credo: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary levels of evidence."
  
  

I have conducted and edited extensive Q&A interviews with the world's most preeminent scientists, including Jonas Salk, Richard Leakey, E.O. Wilson, Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Gerard K. O'Neill, B.F. Skinner, Roger Sperry, John Lilly, Edward Teller, Cyril Ponnamperuma, Ernst Mayr, George Schaller, Candace Pert, Karl Pribram, John McCarthy, Ilya Prigogene, and Freeman Dyson.

From 1989-2002, I edited between two and four special sections a year for Newsweek and Newsweek International. I conceived of story ideas, assigned them to writers, edited, and saw through all stages of production. Sections were between 16 and 64 pages in length:

• A selection of the issues I coordinated.
  
• Fall 2002 Health and Fitness, available online
  
• Winter 2002 Health and Fitness, available online