Tina Hay Editor, The Penn Stater magazine Penn State Alumni Association Hintz Family Alumni Center University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-1275 … Fax: 814-863-5690 tinahay@psu.edu

If you’re looking for a Web site for The Penn Stater magazine, well, we haven’t
gotten to that yet, but we’re working on it. Honest!

In the meantime, let me entertain you with some of my travel photos…

Lake Constance
Italian Riviera (also the blog from that trip)
A side trip to Florence
Alaska (I kept a blog on that trip, too)
Provence and the French Riviera (there’s a blog from that trip too)
Holland and Belgium
Orlando’s Sea World and Discovery Cove
British Isles (or the sampler, or the blog)
Galapagos
Newfoundland
Prague (or a sampler of just a few photos)
Antarctica (lots of penguin photos here!)
Kauai

RESOURCES FOR OTHER EDITORS

•An information sheet on our bimonthly reader survey (in PDF form; it also includes a copy of the survey itself).

•A PDF of my pre-conference workshop at the 2008 CASE Editors Forum in New Orleans, called “Why Didn’t I Think of That? Finding Ideas That will Surprise and Delight Your Readers.”

•A copy of my PowerPoint presentation on story planning from the 2005 CASE Editors Forum in San Diego.

•Some thoughts on the source-review and fact-checking process. What do you do when a source wants to completely rework your story?

•A PDF of a sample writer contract, which we adapted from Cornell Magazine and which you’re welcome in turn to adapt for your own use. If you’d like me to e-mail you a version in Word, to save you from retyping the thing, just send me an e-mail.