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ASJA Direct - Margaret Guroff, Executive Editor, AARP The Magazine

Margaret Guroff is an executive editor at AARP The Magazine, and a former editor of Baltimore magazine. She is also the editor and publisher of Power Moby-Dick, an online annotation of Herman Melville's classic novel. Her cultural history book, The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life, was published in 2016 by the University of Texas Press.

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In this podcast, Margaret Guroff,  Executive Editor of AARP talks to Estelle Erasmus about:

  • AARP and her role there
  • The all- important demographic of her reader (it’s not always what you think) What he looks for in a submission or pitch
  • Does she take pitches?
  • How to contact her/AARP
  • The stories she is clamoring for
  • Word count, rights and payment
  • Editor pet peeves
  • How the editing process works
  • How to contact digital
  • What’s next for AARP

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