The Crew
Who the hell is this bunch of misfits that runs this so-called magazine? Just who do you think you are trying to tell us what’s important in the world?
Here’s who you can blame — or pitch stories to if you’re a publicist, cause we know this page is the most important thing on the site as far as you’re concerned.
The Editors
John M. Guilfoil — Editor-in-chief
John and Mario in Hollywood The head-shot. (Blast staff photo/Aram Boghosian)
He blogs at his personal page, PRrag, and he Tweets, and he’s on Facebook.
John writes for The Boston Globe, covering a healthy mixture of breaking news and business/tech. He’s a 2007 Northeastern University grad and is doing the grad school thing at Emerson College.
The old man of the group, John is 25.
Feel free to email him about advertising, business matters, press/media inquiries about Blast and anything not specifically covered by another editor.
Elizabeth Raftery — Managing editor for features
A liz headshot. We work hard here at Blast.
She’s a real hotshot.
Liz is an original Blaster, helping in 2006 to get the first issue off the ground. Her main area of expertise is music. She’s also responsible for anything going on in New York. So email her about your band playing a gig in NYC.
Marc Normandin — Games editor
Marc dresses down one of his reviewers for writing a poor article. Marc edits a junior reporter.
Marc is a 2008 graduate of Merrimack College.
He’s responsible for a healthy beefing up of Blast Games. He even started a separate games blog, Chibi Gamer. Email him, and all you publicists better make damn well sure that he’s getting review copies of all your games.
Erica Marcus — Life editor
Erica is a graduate student at Emerson College Erica tries to decipher an obscure news story.
A 2007 University of New Hampshire graduate, Erica is also doing the journalism grad program at Emerson.
She enjoys wine, taking pictures, and long walks on the beach.
You can email her about any of the topics in the Life section.
Michael Kaufmann — Sci/Tech editor
We’re still working up what we want to say about Michael Kaufmann, but you should def email him about health, science, technology, gadgets, etc.
