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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He went from intern to EIC before his 30th birthday
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
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
Earlier this year, Modern Luxury, the largest publisher of luxury regional magazines in the United States, welcomed Marcy Bloom as its new senior VP and group publisher. Bloom is a publishing veteran who worked her…
Valerie Berrios
The 3 Percent Conference has a new plan for promoting gender equality at America's advertising agencies: It's introducing a certification program. The advocacy group announced the initiative at its New York conference today, equipped with…
Katie Richards
A career in advertising can be a notorious slog, especially at the beginning. Working grueling hours on dog's-breakfast accounts, watching 99 percent of your ideas—often the best ones—die on the vine, then swallowing your rage when…
Gabriel Beltrone
When gossip is about you, it's generally a bad thing. When gossip produces the spoils of a million dollar brand, it's a good thing. That's the end Natasha Eubanks doesn't mind being on. The blogstress…
Janelle Harris Dixon
Shot on location in Ireland, History Channel's Vikings looks and sounds a lot like the 2000 film Gladiator, right down to the shifty clan leader Earl Haraldson and tormented protagonist Ragnar Lothbrok. And thanks to…
Richard Horgan
Mike Catherwood's years of hard work and refining his craft paid off on January 28, 2011. That's when the 32-year-old filled in for Regis Philbin on Live! with Regis and Kelly after he was selected…
Marcus Vanderberg
For those journos who are ready to say "so long" to whittling word rates and chasing checks, we decided to address (and sometimes debunk) a few of the most common myths about jobs in the…
Jessica Howell