So What Do You Do, Mark Aldam, President of Hearst Newspapers?
'I believe that the printed newspaper will be around long enough to print our obituaries.'
Janday Wilson
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So What Do You Do, Dominic Chu, Markets Reporter for CNBC?
By day, Dominic Chu is the smiling, now familiar face delivering the latest news on stock, bond and currency markets, but, generally speaking, he is a master of career reinvention. After a stint as a…
Janelle Harris Dixon
So What Do You Do, Pete Cashmore, Mashable Founder and CEO?
mediabistro.com recently spoke with Cashmore about the evolving nature of the site, his reaction to incessant coverage of himself in tech blogs, whether online media outlets should impose pay walls, and if he thinks MySpace…
Joe Ciarallo
So What Do You Do, Maria Elena Salinas, Univision Network News Anchor?
With Diane Sawyer's near-5-year-run on ABC "World News", the spotlight is once again on the female news anchor and the progress that broadcast news has made in the past decade. But in 1987, almost 20 years prior…
Kevin Allocca
So What Do You Do, Amanda Hocking, Author and Self-Publishing Powerhouse?
Unable to find a publisher, Amanda Hocking took the fate of her success as an author into her own hands and released her YA troll princess tales as eBooks through Amazon. Although price points varied…
Jeff Rivera
So What Do You Do, Cecily von Ziegesar, Creator of Gossip Girl
You don't need to be a member of the Upper East Side elite to know that Gossip Girl is a force to be reckoned with. With 11 books in the original series, prequels, a spinoff…
Jeff Rivera
So What Do You Do, Tamron Hall, Anchor of MSNBC’s NewsNation?
Whether interviewing a world leader or hurling water balloons at her co-hosts, that's Tamron Hall's signature move: journalistic dexterity. As a co-host on Today, the face of her weekday MSNBC program, NewsNation with Tamron Hall, and…
Janelle Harris Dixon
So What Do You Do, Noah Callahan-Bever, EIC, Complex?
To folks used to slowly toiling their way up the ladder in the world of magazines, Noah Callahan-Bever may seem to have shot up really quickly to the role of EIC at Marc Ecko's Complex.…
David S. Hirschman
Hey, How’d You Start Your Own Lifestyle Brand, Melissa Musen Gerstein and Denise Albert?
Between the two of them, Melissa Musen Gerstein and Denise Albert have racked up quite impressive credits as television producers for such highly rated shows as Good Morning America and Anderson Cooper 360. But after…
Valerie Berrios