Jess Mayhugh

About Jess Mayhugh

Award-winning journalist who guides editorial teams and manages multi-faceted packages to produce coverage centered around culture, food, and travel.

Experience

1. Managing Editor, Eater & Punch

   Vox Media

   Feb 2023 — Present

   Manage Eater and Punch’s day-to-day operations, owning cross-network collaborations, maintaining editorial calendars, and executing large-scale packages • Oversee the copy desk, managing copy editors to ensure high-quality journalism across both brands • Work with editorial leadership to pitch and create new packages, sections, events, and special projects• Communicate effectively between editorial, video, audience, and visual teams • Partner with the audience development team on the newsletter program, namely producing the industry-focused newsletter Pre Shift• Advise on the brand’s DEI working group, as well as its edit advisers program, in order to add a new and diverse group of contributors into the fold• Serve as point person for central operations team, guiding professional development opportunities, partnering with the communications team, and maintaining editorial policies• Liaise with brand licensing team on various products, including an app and line of cookware

Education

• Loyola University Maryland

  Master’s Degree - MA, Emerging Media

  2016 — 2019

• University of Maryland

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Journalism, Art History

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Drupal
• Interiors
• Finishes
• Editing
• Lighting
• Hand Rendering
• Interior Design
• Online Journalism
• Construction
• Copywriting
• Journalism
• Mac
• Blogging
• Magazines
• Architecture
• Space Planning
• Remodeling
• Cad
• Space-Planning
• News Writing
• Word
• Sustainable Design
• Mac Os X Server
• Sketching
• Finish
• Construction Documents
• Residential Design
• Ff&E
• Drawing
• Writing
• Proofreading
• Design Development
• Adobe Acrobat
• Graphics
• Layout
• Architectural Design
• Interior Architecture
• Residential
• Ap Style
• Concept Design