Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell | |
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 Terry McDonell at Fortune Brainstorm TECH, in July 2011 | |
| Born | August 1, 1944 |
| Occupation | Magazine editor |
| Children | Nick McDonell Thomas McDonell |
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Robert Terry McDonell (born August 1, 1944) is an editor, writer and publishing executive.[1] Most recently, he co-founded The Literary Hub. His memoir, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers was published by Knopf in 2016.
Early Life and Education
McDonell was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Irma Sophronia (née Nelson) and Robert Meynard McDonell.[2]
McDonell attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from the University of California, Irvine.
Magazine Career
McDonell served as editor of Time Inc. Sports Group from 2006 to 2012.
As Editor of the Time Inc. Sports Group. McDonell directed all editorial content and operations of the weekly magazine Sports Illustrated, SI.com,[3] GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com,[4] as well as SI Kids, FanNation.com[5] and international editions including SI China, SI South Africa, and SI India.
He was hired as SI's 8th Managing Editor of Sports Illustrated in February 2002. Under his leadership, SI Digital's net revenues jumped 180% in 2006 and 587% over three years.[6] That digital growth along with newsstand sales and reader satisfaction scores for the weekly were among the reasons McDonell was named one of Sports Business Journal’s 50 Most Influential People in Sports Business in 2007[7] and a member of Adweek’s Magazine Executive Team of the Year.[8][9]
In 2009, McDonell created the first magazine for the iPad.[10][11]
Before moving to SI, McDonell led the conversion of Wenner Media's US Magazine to US Weekly.[12] He came to Wenner Media to edit Men's Journal, and had also worked at Wenner launching Outside Magazine in 1977, and editing Rolling Stone in the early 1980s.[13] He left Rolling Stone for Newsweek (1983-85), where he was an AME and also created Newsweek Access ("THe Magazine of Life and Technology[14]).".[15]
McDonell was the founding editor of both Rocky Mountain Magazine (1979) and SMART (1984-90) magazines.[16]
As the editor-in-chief of Esquire (1990-93), McDonell also launched Esquire Sportsman and Esquire Gentleman. After Esquire, he was editor-in-chief and publisher of Sports Afield, which he relaunched as an upscale hunting and fishing magazine.[17]
McDonell's magazines have been nominated for 29 National Magazine Awards and received the award in 2003, 2005 and 2010.
In 2012, McDonell was inducted into the ASME Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame.[18][19]
Writing
McDonell is also a novelist (California Bloodstock) and a poet (Wyoming: The Lost Poems[20]). His memoir, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers was published by Knopf in 2016.[21]
He also wrote the video game Night Trap[22]
Television and Film
As a screenwriter he wrote for Miami Vice (episodes "Back in the World" and "Over the Line"); and China Beach (episode "Waiting for Beckett").[23]
McDonell appeared as himself on Saturday Night Live ("Prose and Cons") in 1981[24]; and hosted the television talk show Last Call produced by Brandon Tartikoff and MCA ((19904-95).[25]
Service and Awards
McDonell serves as president of the board of directors of The Paris Review Foundation.[26]
Since 2016 McDonell's papers have been collected at The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas.[27]
Personal Life
McDonell lives in Manhattan with his wife, Stacey Hadash. With his first wife, Joan Raffeld, he is the father of novelist Nick McDonell and actor Thomas McDonell.
References
- ^ “Terry McDonell: Editor, Sports Illustrated Group,” Sports Business Journal. By Jerry Kavanagh. March 26, 2007.
- ^ Johnson, Curt (1988). Who's who in U.S. writers, editors & poets, Volume 1. December Press. ISBN 0913204218.
- ^ "sportsillustrated.cnn.com". sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
- ^ golf.com
- ^ "fannation.com". fannation.com. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
- ^ “Terry McDonell,” Folio Magazine. April 2, 2007.
- ^ “How They Stack Up,” Sports Business Journal. December 17, 2007.
- ^ “Special Report: A Winning Doubleheader,” Adweek. March 5, 2007.
- ^ National Magazine Awards Database Magazine Publishers of America
- ^ Archive, View Author; Author, Email the; Twitter, Follow on; feed, Get author RSS (2010-10-21). "It's no Newsweek for Terry McDonell". New York Post. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Carr, David (2010-02-01). "To Deliver, iPad Needs Media Deals". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ Carr, David (2002-02-05). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Sports Illustrated Is Expected to Get an Outsider as Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ Carr, David (2002-02-05). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Sports Illustrated Is Expected to Get an Outsider as Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ Zito, Tom (2011-10-06). "Steve Jobs: 1984 Access Magazine Interview". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Carr, David (2002-02-05). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Sports Illustrated Is Expected to Get an Outsider as Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
- ^ “The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers,” Amazon.
- ^ "TERRY MCDONELL ELECTED TO MAGAZINE EDITORS' HALL OF FAME". www.asme.media. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ "TERRY MCDONELL ELECTED TO MAGAZINE EDITORS' HALL OF FAME". www.asme.media. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ^ Tribute Video for Terry McDonell, Time Inc. Sports Group Editor | Sports Illustrated, retrieved 2022-11-02
- ^ "Wyoming: The Lost Poems". Goodreads. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (2016-07-19). "Review: In 'The Accidental Life,' Golfing on LSD Is Just Part of an Editor's Job". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ “Night Trap” at Moby Games
- ^ "Terry McDonell - IMDb". Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ "SNL Transcripts: 10/03/81: "Prose and Cons" - SNL Transcripts Tonight". 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ “‘Call’ Grating,” Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ "The Elegant Variation: Plimpton Prize". Marksarvas.blogs.com. 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
- ^ https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2016/09/a-life-in-magazines-terry-mcdonell-donates-his-archives-to-the-briscoe
External links
- “Sports Illustrated Is Expected to Get an Outsider as Editor,” The New York Times. By David Carr. February 5, 2002.
- “A Mr. Fix-It For Sports Illustrated,” Media Life Magazine. By Carl Bialik. February, 2002.
- “Terry McDonell is Mr. Fix-It, But Can He Fix Wenner’s Folly?” Media Life Magazine. By Maureen Garry. September, 1999.