ELIZABETH BONNER CZAPSKI

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HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
Met 100 percent of deadlines with The Cottage Journal, Southern Lady, Coastal Living, The Tennessean, The Auburn
Plainsman and New Statesman with wide-ranging editorial and web experience and hundreds of published articles to
date, including newspaper front-page stories and section-front centerpieces; magazine cover stories and well features;
and multimedia web content
WORK EXPERIENCE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, The Cottage Journal, Remote, February 2022-Present
▪ Pitch and write stories that span shelter/lifestyle subjects: Home, garden, profiles, travel, decorating, entertaining
▪ Edit each issue with extreme attention to detail—from first-draft stories to press-ready compilations
▪ Plan, write and produce original web posts, weekly newsletter content and social media posts
ASSISTANT EDITOR, Southern Lady, Birmingham, Ala./Remote, June 2015-February 2022
▪ Pitched, wrote and edited lifestyle stories: Profiles, home, garden, entertaining, food, travel, book reviews
▪ 2015-2016- Managed and produced website, social media channels and newsletter
EDITORIAL FELLOW, Coastal Living, Birmingham, Ala., January-July 2014
▪ Supported print stories/styled shoots (primarily home and product) as well as digital and social media content
REPORTING INTERN, The Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn., April-July 2012
▪ Wrote news and lifestyle stories for the newspaper and produced online pieces, some with multimedia features
WRITER, The Auburn Plainsman, Auburn, Ala., 2010-2012
▪ Wrote for every section of the newspaper and contributed to the website
EDITORIAL INTERN/ONLINE WRITER, New Statesman, London, England, May-July 2011
▪ Wrote and selected stock images for several online news stories and blog posts each day
EDUCATION
M.A. IN JOURNALISM, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Summer 2015
▪ Professional emphasis on magazine writing; research emphasis on print magazine readership; GPA: 4.0
▪ Graduate Council Fellowship, full tuition and stipend; Outstanding Journalism Thesis-Track Student
▪ Thesis: “Millennials and the Future of Magazines: How the Generation of Digital Natives Will Determine Whether
Print Magazines Survive”
▪ Writing mentor at the university’s Media Writing Center and the News Writing and Reporting course writing labs
M.A. IN MASS COMMUNICATION (Coursework), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., Fall 2013
(one semester toward two-year degree, transferred to the University of Alabama’s program listed above)
▪ Specialization in Reporting with emphasis on magazine writing and multimedia journalism; GPA: P (P/F system)
▪ Roy H. Park Fellowship, full tuition and stipend for assistantship work
COLUMBIA PUBLISHING GRADUATE CERTIFICATE, Columbia University, New York, N.Y, Summer 2013
▪ Six-week intensive course on all aspects of book, magazine and digital media publishing
▪ Editor of Sweet Potato- In five days, created a magazine from concept to completion of a prospectus with a
mission, general issue layout, editorial plans, tables of contents for four issues and more than 50 story ideas
B.A. IN JOURNALISM, Auburn University Honors College, Auburn, Ala., Class of 2013
▪ Minor in Political Science; GPA: 4.0; summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
▪ Honors Apogee Program- Graduated as a University Honors Scholar with Highest Distinction
▪ Served as Alpha Gamma Delta social sorority Public Relations Coordinator and Project Uplift “big sister”
SKILLS
▪ AP, Chicago, APA Styles ▪ Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel

▪ Adobe InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, ▪ WordPress, various media outlets’ content
Premiere Pro management systems, social media