Page 10 - Cosmopolitan - USA (February 2020)

N E W T H I N G
A L E R T !
Instead of boring ol’ Jess Pels
every month, different editors
are going to take over this page
and show you the BTS of their
jobs. (But because Jess is a Virgo,
she’ll still be here making
Ed letter notes. She cannot stop

herself.)

Edited by EIC Jessica Pels

Plz meet Jessica Goodman, Cosmo’s

first-ever op-ed editor. She’s been on staff as
a senior editor for more than two years,

and this is her first day of her B-I-G new job.
The Cosmo
Art Show

9 A . M .
Real talk? I’m feeling
5 P. M .
so for distraction, Our design team is
I listen to the My

9:45 A . M . take. Three words: no
I have a few things to more mini-moons.
finish for my old job,
2:45 P. M .
I pop into Jess Pels’ Cheetos.
office with execu-
tive editor Sascha de 6:15 P. M .
last meal. Gersdorff and depu- I leave to meet a
ties Rosa and Jen friend for dinner at a
10:30 A . M . Ortiz to get into the Malaysian spot and
I watch the impeach- nitty-gritty of Opera- read Wow, No Thank
ment hearings tion Op-Ed. We talk You on the subway.
(remember those?!) writers we’d love It’s a hilarious new
and Slack with other to work with, juicy book of essays, and
editors about WTF is books we’re hoping I’m eager to chat
even happening and to excerpt, and big with author Saman-
stories we should tha Irby about writing
follow. As soon as I for Cosmo. I make
a note to email her
tomorrow; by the time
news I think my
eyes might bleed.
(They don’t.) (But
they still might.)

1 P. M .
4 P. M .
I love a lunch meet-
ing, and today’s is Once a month, the
with deputy editor Cosmo team meets PELS: T YLER JOE. GOODM AN: RUBEN CHA MORRO. ART ROOM: M ARY FA M A.
Rosa Heyman. We to write cover lines
eat falafel and talk for this here mag. O P - E D E D I T O R
about how op-eds I shout out one @ J E S S I C A G O O D M A N
don’t always have to
be serious. I pitch a
#MyImpact.

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