Emma Glassman-Hughes
Somerville,MA
Summary
Results-driven editor with extensive experience managing editorial workflows and enhancing content quality. My work has been published by Civil Eats, Sierra, The Boston Globe's Sunday magazine, Bon Appétit, Investigate Midwest, Offrange, and more.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Editor, Balance
Popsugar, Vox Media
07.2024 - Current
- Pitch, write, and edit top-performing lifestyle content for the .com and social, covering Gen Z, internet culture, and gender within lifestyle beats like travel, food, relationships, and career
- Curate, write, and produce the daily Popsugar network newsletter, with original newsletter-only reporting and aggregated Popsugar stories from the .com and social
- Edit and proofread articles and social posts for clarity, style, and adherence to publication standards
- Serve as a mentor in the Vox Media Writers Workshop, coaching early career journalists on best practices for newsgathering, pitching
Contributing Writer/Editor
Offrange
02.2024 - Current
- Research and develop engaging content across diverse food and agriculture topics to enhance audience engagement
- Collaborate with editorial team to design and produce articles for the .com and newsletter, ensuring clarity and alignment with brand voice
- Conduct interviews with subject matter experts to gather insights for in-depth features and quick-turn news
- Edit and fact-check articles, for accuracy, style, and adherence to publication standards
Digital producer
The Boston Globe
03.2022 - 07.2024
- Pitched and wrote quick-turn and enterprise stories across culture beats weekly
- Produced web stories on Arc CMS; used news judgment to curate the globe.com homepage
- Analyzed audience data to inform push alerts, email sends, and other content decisions, optimizing performance based on audience insights and trends. Collaborated with homepage, metro, audience engagement, and social teams to promote top stories across platforms
- Used SEO, social, email, and other distribution strategies to drive engagement with web stories across beats
Staff writer
Bustle Digital Group
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Wrote 2-3 stories daily about sex, queer life, and wellness
- Collaborated with SEO editor to ensure best practices and make SEO updates on catalog of old BDG stories
Print editor, Here Magazine
Away
05.2017 - 02.2020
- Launched Here, an award-winning print+digital travel and culture magazine
- Managed dozens of freelancers; produced, copy-edited, proofed seven quarterly print issues; wrote, edited, and produced top performing stories weekly
- Reported from a dozen countries across five continents on range of culture beats; wrote cover stories, enterprise features, front- and back-of-book, heds/deks, captions
- Collaborated with digital editor to increase organic web traffic by 50% and SEO from 15% to 35% of traffic YOY; built and published digital stories on custom CMS
- Co-founded Away’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group
Education
BS - Global & Postcolonial Studies
Emerson College
05-2017
MS - Journalism
Boston University
01.2023
Skills
- Lightroom, Premiere Pro, & Adobe suite
- Google suite
- Content management systems (Typeset, Arc, Wordpress)
- SocialFlow
- MailChimp
- Sailthru
- AirShip
- Chartbeat
- Airtable
- Slack
- Socials (X, Bluesky, Meta)
- Dash Hudson
- Leadership qualities
- Grammar expertise
- Fact-checking
- Copy editing
- Story pitching
Accomplishments
My character-driven, narrative-style reporting has received honors and awards from the Society for Features Journalism, the Indigenous Journalists Association, and the association for North American Agriculture Journalism.
Timeline
Associate Editor, Balance
Popsugar, Vox Media
07.2024 - Current
Contributing Writer/Editor
Offrange
02.2024 - Current
Digital producer
The Boston Globe
03.2022 - 07.2024
Staff writer
Bustle Digital Group
05.2021 - 04.2022
Print editor, Here Magazine
Away
05.2017 - 02.2020
BS - Global & Postcolonial Studies
Emerson College
MS - Journalism
Boston University
Freelance contributor roles
- InsideHook columnist (Feb.-Aug. '23), Bustle Digital Group (Sept. '22-Dec. '23), Cosmopolitan (Oct. '21-Dec. '22)