Stories, ideas, and perspectives to spark your next creative move. Be Inspired features profiles, essays, and thought pieces that celebrate the work of media and creative professionals and remind you why you got into the industry in the first place.
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TV vet and bestselling author talks balancing her life, staying positive
Deborah Norville is first and foremost a survivor. This broadcast veteran endured one of the most brutal cases of career- and character-bashing ever inflicted on a television personality in the nineties, but emerged stronger for…
Diane Clehane
As features and special projects director of Harper's Bazaar, Laura Brown works closely with editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey to create the fashion magazine's most buzzed-about stories and celebrity covers that have garnered more than their fair share…
Diane Clehane
As the first woman of color to be the top editor at a Condé Nast publication—and someone who spent her early career in corporate law—Brides editor in chief Keija Minor knows a thing or two…
Valerie Berrios
Even as a child, Toan Lam knew he wanted to tell stories. He grew up in a rough neighborhood in South Sacramento, Calif., and used reading and writing as an outlet—and eventually a passport out…
Valerie Berrios
The Onion has evolved into much more than that satirical newspaper we all know and love. (Sample headline: "Obama Spends Afternoon in Garage Restoring Classic Drone.") "America's Finest News Source" has become a full-blown digital-media…
Valerie Berrios
Update: Eric Noe is no longer the managing editor at ABC News Digital. Eric Noe knows digital news. The journo, who began his career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been with ABC News Digital since…
Valerie Berrios
Jesse Ventura has never been one to mince his words. The Vietnam vet turned pro wrestler turned governor of Minnesota has been openly critical of, among other things, the nation's two-party system, organized religion and…
Valerie Berrios
With media jobs at a premium, that brilliant idea for a new media company that you've been batting for the past few months is starting to seem like your only way to break into the…
Amanda Ernst
You don't have to go far to find criticism of employers like Demand Studios, Contently and Associated Content. These "content farms" employ massive numbers of writers to generate cheap content primed to appear at the…
Amanda Layman Low
All types of independent professionals have been hearing it for years—to do business today, you need a website. But what exactly is the function of your website when you're a freelance writer? Unless you're a…
Amanda Layman Low