Lanford Beard
Senior News Editor, PEOPLE
- Role
- Senior News Editor at People Magazine People.Com
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lanford Beard
Lanford Beard is a big-picture thinker with experience in every arm of media who is able to tailor and scale content across platforms, design and execute large event-based news coverage plans, and grow audiences both editorially and via social media. General attributes: Innovative thinker, able to negotiate bird\'s-eye view ideation with on-the-ground execution, experienced with management and collaboration on teams of any size, passionate about entertainment/culture Specialties: Entertainment content creation and curation, branded, arts & culture, storytelling, mentoring and bridge-building growing/evolving teams Skills: Metrics tracking (Omniture/Chartbeat/Google), multiple CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Vignette), commentary talent (on air, radio), video production (content + iMovie/Avid)
Experience
Senior News Editor
May 2021 — Present
Education
Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism
Master of Science, Journalism
2006 — 2007
Middlebury College
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Film & Media Culture
2000 — 2004
University of East Anglia
Study Abroad, English, Journalism, Film
2002 — 2002
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