ABOUT DEVIN TOMB
Devin Tomb is an editorial assistant at Glamour magazine and a reporter for Ed2010.com. She has interned for O, The Oprah Magazine and CosmoGirl, and her writing has been published in CosmoGirl, The Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine, The Indiana Gazette and several websites.
As a 2010 graduate of The Pennsylvania State University with a major in journalism and a minor in French, Tomb was the editor-in-chief of Valley, Penn State's life and style magazine, from 2008 to 2010. Tomb led Valley in a ground-up redesign after its first issue, giving the magazine a sophisticated and cohesive look from cover to cover. She geared Valley toward a "student-life" approach in order to provide students with positive role models and a platform to discuss issues and trends on campus. Under Tomb's leadership, Valley has achieved significant accomplishments, including an interview with singer Taylor Swift and praise from Penn State University President Graham Spanier, who called the Fall 2009 issue "very impressive."
Tomb took Valley to a national level when she launched the Penn State branch of HerCampus.com in February 2010. The site, which averages 250,000 hits a month, features content from Valley magazine in order to recognize Penn State students in front of a nation-wide audience. Under Tomb's leadership, Her Campus Penn State won the "Best Social Media Publicity Award" in May 2010.
Tomb was also the co-founder and president of Penn State's Ed on Campus, which is a university-based chapter of Ed2010, a networking and mentoring organization for students interested in the magazine industry. Tomb created a successful speaker series for the PSU Ed on Campus by hosting professional magazine editors at Penn State, most notably Bill Phillips, the executive editor of Men's Health, and Kim Tranell, the health editor of Seventeen.
Read Devin’s articles from CosmoGirl, Glamour, and the McClatchy Washington Bureau. How are these articles connected in their style, or concerns? What questions do you have for Devin about how her college experience of public writing prepared her for an even larger sphere at Glamour, CosmoGirl, and O, The O Magazine? Do some research on these publications. Why might they have attracted Devin’s interest?
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