Phil Fox Rose – Editor

Editor in chief of the revered Presence Journal and SDI Press, as well as overseeing newsletters and other content.

Lead editorial for major content site on faith—from evangelical to atheist, Muslim to Pagan—with about 400 contributors, 100 posts a day, 6 million active readers, 15 million monthly pageviews.
- Curate featured posts, newsletters & contributor recruitment; manage section editors.
- Grow readers 66%, pageviews 34%.
- Oversee editorial use of WordPress & Sitecore content management systems.
- Develop, maintain and implement house style & acceptable content guides.
- Address top level strategy and business concerns with CEO, CMO and CTO

Oversee all publishing projects at the press except poetry and fine art books.
- Responsible for acquisitions, developmental edits, author negotiations and relationships.
- Develop cover concepts and make publishing decisions with ME and consultant.
- Develop and create product books.
- Acquire 35 books.
* Expand list into evangelical and fiction and strengthened progressive.

- Developmental editing, line editing and copyediting; conceived and developed top traffic-generating features.
- Managed Wordpress CMS, including new feature development; implemented style guide.

Developed and managed websites and online communication

Led product design for both client and server side as core team member creating digital radio network with 47 stations and major label licensing deals.

Freelance editorial services. Also, coaching / mentoring for creatives through big decisions and discernment, facing creative blocks and unhelpful habits.

Launched and ran flagship Reviews section; assigned and edited hundreds of stories; wrote two regular columns. Asked to return years later to redesign and expand reviews operation into testing lab, then act as its editor.

- On team that introduced comparative reviews to the computer market at U.S.’s tenth-highest-revenue magazine.
- Wrote feature articles and product reviews; led many comparative review projects.