Alison Biggar

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  Guest: Alison Biggar, Editor of Chronicle MagazineTopic: How to get published in newspapers and magazines
  
  After 10 years of blue collar jobs (bike messenger, waitress, typesetter), Alison read a book called "Careers for English Majors and Other Geeks" and discovered there was a job called copy editing.She took the three-course copy-editing series at UC Berkeley extension, flooded the Bay Area with 32 applications and got one job at the Phoenix Journal in the Oakland Hills.From there she moved onto Diablo Publications, where she edited Giants Magazine (having never attended a baseball game), became managing editor at Diablo Magazine, and then senior editor at Examiner Magazine.She was named Editor of Chronicle Magazine one day before her second maternity leave.She lives in the Oakland hills, is married and the harried mother of an almost 6 year old and a 4 1/2 year old.She's a second generation Californian and a graduate of UCSB.

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  Alison Biggar, editor of The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, takes you inside the newspaper/magazine editorial process.Alison reveals how she decides which stories to publish, what makes a great essay and how to create a strong story arc.

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  Recent departees, along with Coile, also include the following, according to those web sites: investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld, jack-of-all-trades Steve Rubenstein, movie writer Ruthe Stein, education reporter Tanya Schevitz, real-estate editor Bill Burnett, health/medical reporter Elizabeth Fernandez, business and labor reporter George Raine, sports columnist Gwen Knapp, sports editor Glenn Schwarz, culture writers Heidi Benson, Edward Guthmann, Jesse Hamlin and Steve Winn, magazine editor Alison Biggar and East Bay bureau reporter Charles Burress.

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  Pitch your stories or ideas by e-mail to Alison Biggar: abiggar@sfchronicle.com.

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  Alison BiggarEditor of SF Chronicle Magazine.

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  Alison BiggarAfter 10 years of varied employment as a bike messenger, waitress, typesetter, Alaskan cook and bike shop manager, Alison read one of those annoying career help books, Jobs for English Majors and Other Losers, and discovered copy editing.She realized it was something she had been doing automatically for years, much to the chagrin of friends and coworkers, and decided to try to get paid for it.She got a job at the Phoenix Journal in the East Bay, then Diablo Magazine, then the Chronicle.She started as senior editor with the magazine in 1998 and was named editor the day before her second maternity leave a year and a half ago.A voracious reader, Alison's been working ever since to make the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine into something she would spend time on a Sunday morning reading.Alison has launched many a literary career in the Bay Area.With a readership estimated at over 1,000,000, her publication has tremendous reach.Alison will share an editor's point of view,

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  Alison BiggarAfter 10 years of varied employment as a bike messenger, waitress, typesetter, Alaskan cook and bike shop manager, Alison read one of those annoying career help books, Jobs for English Majors and Other Losers, and discovered copy editing.She realized it was something she had been doing automatically for years, much to the chagrin of friends and coworkers, and decided to try to get paid for it.She got a job at the Phoenix Journal in the East Bay, then Diablo Magazine, then the Chronicle.She started as senior editor with the magazine in 1998 and was named editor the day before her second maternity leave a year and a half ago.A voracious reader, Alison's been working ever since to make the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine into something she would spend time on a Sunday morning reading.Alison has launched many a literary career in the Bay Area.With a readership estimated at over 1,000,000, her publication has tremendous reach.Alison will share an editor's point of view,

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