Beth Quill Moves to Smithsonian Magazine

Beth Quill and friend in Madrid.

After almost five years as an editor at Science News in Washington, D.C., former Ithacan Editor in Chief Beth Quill ’06 has moved over to Smithsonian magazine, where she has been hired as senior science editor.
“I am so excited to bring compelling science stories to millions of readers.” she said.
Beth’s career has been an impressive one. After graduating from Ithaca with a degree in journalism, she went on to earn a master’s degree in MIT’s prestigious science writing program. From there she went to England for a five-month stint writing daily news stories at Science magazine, and then came back to the U.S. to work for Science News.
It will be exciting to see what she brings to one of the country’s most prestigious magazines.

The Return of Taylor Long

Taylor Long at the Berlin Wall

Senior Taylor Long is back at The Ithacan this semester editing the 2013 edition of Year in Review after a summer in New York at Food & Wine magazine and a semester abroad in Prague.
She was at Food & Wine as an American Society of Magazine Editors intern, following in the footsteps of such ASME-intern alumni as Libby Sile ’11 (Reader’s Digest), Erin Geismar ’09 (Smart Money), Vanessa Schneider ’07 (InStyle), Elizabeth Quill ’06 (National Geographic), Michelle Theis Cuthrell ’04 (Smithsonian Magazine) and Kelli Grant ’04 (Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine).
“My internship with Food & Wine and the ASME internship program as a whole completely exceeded my expectations,” she said. “There were many lessons learned and friendships made last summer that I take with me as I prepare for graduation.”
As for her four months in the Czech Republic, “Because creative and political movements in Prague have often been closely linked, it was the perfect environment to experiment with fiction writing while continuing to develop political themes in my work.”
She’s writing for the paper again as well. Check out her latest story, an observational piece on rapper Talib Kweli’s visit to Ithaca College.