About Me

In August 2008, I finished a four year stint as the managing editor and electronic publisher of Ringier’s City Weekend, a 100,000-circulation bi-weekly English entertainment magazine and website for Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China. My responsibilities there included editorial planning, production and management.

My first real experience with journalism was in Qingdao, China, where I co-founded an English entertainment guide for the 2008 co-host Olympic city in 2002, before assuming the role of managing editor at City Weekend. My work at City Weekend focused on publishing user and database-generated content into publication’s email, mobile and print products.

I am now studying digital media and the business and economics of media – at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. I spend a lot of time working with Final Cut and Flash. My classmate, Chris Kieffer, I recently published www.hoopknight.com, which documents the 2009 season of the Mount Vernon Knights high school boy’s basketball team. Professionally, I’m very interested in developing new revenue channels for news organizations based on multimedia and video. Lately, I’m working on what went wrong with Google’s Print Ad program.

In June 2009, I plan to move to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam to help build Ringier’s publishing office as general manager. I will help launch a few mass-market and luxury women’s magazines, and if all goes well, several specialized Web sites/blogs (all in Vietnamese).

I’m originally from New Orleans, but call Baton Rouge home.

I graduated with a degree in international affairs from the University of Colorado in 2000. I thrive on good hoppy beer, all things spicy, Louisiana seafood, “swamp bocce”, mountain biking and the occasional Frisbee toss. I wear vintage Casio calculator watches and love all things media/publishing related.

Contact me
ctcrowell[at]gmail[dot]com