Topic:

What the App? Rebranding Birmingham's City Guide

Speaker:

Julie Keith

Editor, Birmingham Magazine

 

Bio: Julie Keith has been in magazine publishing for 17 years, after graduating from Auburn with BA and MA degrees in English. Her first job was as an assistant editor with Symbol of Excellence Publishers (now Hoffman Media), a niche publishing group that at the time focused on craft and needlework titles. From there she went on to edit Alabama magazine for a year, until she was hired by Meredith Corporation, publishers of Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies Home Journal, to manage their crafts division. After 5 brutally cold winters in Des Moines, Iowa, Julie; her husband Todd, a freelance writer; and their new baby Collins, moved back to Birmingham, where she edited Portico magazine for 5 years. She and Todd launched Thicket, a statewide magazine, with some of their former Portico colleagues in the winter of 2008. Julie took the job as editor of Birmingham magazine in August 2009. She and Todd live in Homewood with Collins, now 9, and their second son Fletcher, who is 4.

 

Location:

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
520 16th Street North
Birmingham, AL 35203
205-328-9696