Pamela
Weintraub
Literary & Investigative Science Journalist
http://www.astralgia.com
♦ pam3001@gmail.com
CAREER
TIMELINE
December 2007-present. Discover, Senior Editor.
2005-2007. Psychology Today, Consulting Editor. Conceived, acquired,
and edited two features an issue. Topics included personal
transformation, growth, and, relationships, mind-body health, cultural trends,
and cutting-edge findings from the frontiers of psychology and
neuroscience.
2005-2007.
MAMM Magazine. Executive
Editor, May 2005-May 2006; Editor-at-Large, June 2006-February 2007; Executive
Editor, March-December 2007. As top
staff editor for this 200,000 circ. magazine for women with breast cancer, I
reported directly to the publisher. I conceived the line-up for each issue,
from news stories to columns to profiles and features. Worked
with staff, from assistant editors to art director, on very aspect of magazine
editorial and production. Beat ranged from biomedical breakthroughs and
exploration of emotional territory (like hope, intimacy and resilience) to
personality profiles and women's service.
1999-2004. Consulting, Writing,
Editing. Wrote four books: Bioterrorism
(Citadel, 2002); Pre-parenting:
Nurturing Your Child from Conception (Simon & Schuster,
2002); The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Surviving Divorce (MacMillan,
2005, 3rd version,) and ghostwriter for The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Anti-depression Diet and Brain
Program (Free
Press, 2001). Edited special
sections on health, travel, and the environment for Newsweek International. Wrote many
freelance articles for national magazines. Developed
content and community-based web sites. Started an Internet company,
Tools for Health, which received millions of dollars in funding and is
currently in the black. Other specific projects are detailed below, under topic
categories.
Omni Internet, Editor-in-Chief,
1996-1998.
Conceived and directed the transformation of the print version of OMNI Magazine
into a multi-award-winning web site at the dawn of the Internet era, creating
one of the largest and most popular content destinations of the day. Supervised all editorial, production, design, and programming,
providing living web-based journalism based on interactive, real-time content
and web communities. Created “OMNI Prime Time,”
consisting of six nightly web shows a week, on topics ranging from health to
anomalies to the environment, with a name guest for each production. Managed budget and staff, including 6 full-time editors, two
programmers, and literally dozens of freelancers. Forged a wide
variety of relationships with entertainment and business partners to drive
traffic and generate revenue streams. Accompanied marketing staff to help
pitch to advertisers.
Omni Magazine, 1981-1996
Editor at Large,
1990-1996. Acquired,
edited, wrote, and rewrote feature stories and coordinated production of entire
issues.
Senior Editor,
1984-1990.
Acquired and edited feature stories and supervised production of issues.
Associate Editor,
1981-1984.
Handled features and columns on a wide range of subjects,
including health and medicine, computers, and the environment.
Discover,
1980-1981.
As charter staff writer, produced feature stories on medicine, psychology, the
environment, technology, neuroscience, computers, and a wide range of other
subjects.
Fairchild
Publications, Tech Update section of Metalworking News, Associate
Editor, 1978-1980.
Wrote weekly stories on technology and business.
The Jewish
Advocate, City Editor, 1977-1978. Edited city news,
wrote features and editorials for this local weekly in Boston.
BOOKS
Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, St. Martin's Press, June 2008
Bioterrorism: How to
Survive the 25 Most Dangerous Biological Weapons, Citadel, 2002.
Pre-parenting:
Nurturing Your Child from Conception. The art and science of
parenting based on the latest findings in brain science, with Dr. Thomas Verny, Simon & Schuster, 2002
Medical Emergency!!: The St. Luke's-Roosevelt Book of Emergency Medicine, William Morrow, 1996. First serial rights to Redbook and Women's Day.
The
Omega-3 Connection: The
Groundbreaking Anti-depression Diet and Brain Program by Andrew Stoll, Free Press, 2001. Ghostwriter.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Surviving Divorce,
Macmillan, 1996, 2000, 2005 and The Christian Family Guide
to Surviving Divorce, Penguin,
2003 .
Thirty-Day Higher Consciousness Series: funky, stylized
self-help books based on psychology and neuroscience, co-authored with
psychologist Keith Harary, St. Martin’s Press,
1991-1994, published in US, England, Japan, Spain, and the Netherlands, among
other countries. “Dreams” and “Out-of-Body” remain cult classics:
Lucid Dreams in 30 Days:
The Creative Sleep Program, St. Martin's Press, 1992
Have an Out-of-Body Experience
in 30 Days: The Free Flight Program, St. Martin's Press, 1992
Right Brain Learning in
30 Days: The Whole Mind Program, St. Martin's Press, 1993
Memory Enhancement in 30
Days: The Total Recall Program, St. Martin's Press, 1993
Inner Sex in 30 Days: The
Erotic Fulfillment Program, St. Martin's Press, 1994
Mystical Experiences in 30
Days: The Higher Consciousness Program, St. Martin's Press,
1994
Nurturing the Unborn Child: A Nine-Month Program for Soothing, Stimulating and
Communicating with Your Baby, co-wrote with Thomas Verny, M.D., Delacorte, 1991.
Sold in the US, Japan, Spain and Portugal.
Save the Animals, co-wrote with Dr. Michael Fox,
scientific director of the Humane Society, St. Martin's Press, 1991.
25 Things You Can Do to Beat the Recession of
the 1990s,
St. Martin's Press,1991.
Omni's Catalog of the Bizarre, Doubleday, 1985
The
Omni Interviews, Ticknor & Fields,
1984.
Edited and conducted interviews with the world's preeminent scientists,
including Dr. Jonas Salk, Hans Bethe, Richard Leakey, and E.O. Wilson.
FREELANCE WRITING & EDITING
Wrote dozens of feature articles for many national magazines, including OMNI, Health, Redbook, Ms., McCall's, Audubon, Discover, Women's Day, American Health, Eating Well, Penthouse, HMS Beagle, My Generation, Modern Maturity, Self, Psychology Today and others, 1977-present.
Special Sections Editor for Newsweek
International, 1989-2002. Working for the special projects department as a
regular, out-of-house editor, created and edited several 15-60-page center
sections a year on a variety of subjects
from travel to biotechnology, wireless technology, and the environment.
Columnist. Wrote two weekly
columns, one on Business in Cyberspace, and the other on Entertainment in
Cyberspace, for about 30 daily newspapers in the US and abroad, including The
New York Daily News, The Boston Herald, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and
The St. Paul Pioneer Press thrugh LA Times
Syndicate, 1995-1996. Wrote health and fitness
column for Longevity, 1990-1992. Regular
Contributor to Newsweek International's website for the global executive
and the site's "Net Prophet" column on the future of business in
Cyberspace.
INTERNET
OMNI Internet. As editor-in-chief of OMNI, converted
the magazine into
one of the largest content-based websites
at the dawn of the Internet age. Managed a full
staff, including editors, writers,
producers and programmers. Directed Internet
marketing, including corporate partnerships.
(Site is password protected but available upon
request.) 1996-1998.
Event Horizon Web Productions, Inc.: Think Tank for the Web. Founded and ran a web
production company specializing in health and science content as well as
idea incubation. Through Event
Horizon, was selected to present business plans at major Venture Conferences
and launched multiple web ventures, including an award-winning webzine and a
company that received millions of dollars in funding and still exists. Also
produced live web events, including online book tours, online conferences, and
an online SciFi Convention. Web event clients included
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Avon Books, and Warner Books. 1998-2001.
Tools for Health, Inc.
Was founding president of this Event Horizon spin-off,
created to foster communication between patients and doctors. To date,
Tools for Health has been recipient of millions of dollars in venture funds and
is currently in the black. 1999-2000.
Divorce Central. Created
extensive website and online community on the topic of divorce. Launched 1997.
ENY
Projects Web Hangout. Critically acclaimed
web community for Brooklynites, covered in the New
York Times, New York Post, and Daily News. Launched
1998.
Event
Horizon: SF, Fantasy, Horror, Co-founder of this award-winning
fiction and film webzine, 1998-1999.
Web skills:
Web site production with html and javascript
Interactive script creation with cgi and perl
Internet marketing and traffic analysis
Community creation and management
Web site management with UNIX
Graphic design and presentation with
Photoshop and Powerpoint
EDUCATION
Boston University, 1978, MS, Science
Journalism
SUNY at Albany, 1976, BS in Biology with a
double major in English
Marine
Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Science Writing Fellowship with concentration in
molecular evolution, summer 1990
Bronx HS of Science, 1972
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Association
of Science Writers
Society of
Environmental Journalists
Association of Health
Care Journalists
