Ed already told you about Brandon Holley's post Condé life as the online editor of Yahoo! Shine. It turns out she's not the only former print EIC to transition to web.
According to the New York Observer, Pilar Guzman—the popular editor of the parenting magazine Cookie (which folded in October), is creating web site momfilter.com—a lifestyle site for the modern mom to be launched in the fall.
Deborah Needleman, the editor of Domino, which folded in January 2009, told the Observer that she’s working on her site with Ken Lerer, the chairman of the Huffington Post.
“It’s a commerce site—with a Domino-like sensibility—that makes it easy and pleasurable to decorate and shop for a home,” she wrote in an email to the Observer.
And though she doesn't have a site of her own, Ruth Reichl has been actively tweeting since Gourmet folded last October.
But before everyone starts frantically learning how to tweet and code in HTML, you should know that other EICs are taking the traditional route of writing books about their experiences. Reichl is planning to write a memoir of her Condé days, while Dominique Browning, former EIC of House & Garden, published a book about her post-EIC life that's due in May.
Are you surprised by this Edsters? How many of you work in print and how many of you work in online? Do you agree that you need web savvy even for a print job?
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