Kia Makarechi

- Drive growth strategies across newsletter, search, social media, and analytics. - Manage a team of social-media managers programming content for 12.5M followers across platforms. VF added more than 1 million social followers in 2018. - Built e-mail newsletter business from scratch to more than 1M daily sends, with seven-figure revenue. - Advise on investment asks, staff expansions, consumer revenue (digital paywall), and more. - Advise editors on content strategy, including breaking news/live event coverage, brand identity, and more. Previously: Associate Director of Audience Development, Story Editor.

- Launched and expanded Vanity Fair’s online coverage of breaking news, political, business, and technology. - Scaled VF News a 2-3 million monthly readers within a one-year period. H ... See more

- Editorial lead on all things mobile at The Huffington Post. - Identified and implementedbest practices across the newsroom. - Oversaw a team of section-specific mobile leads who work toward further enforcing mobile best practices aimed at optimizing the mobile experience for readers, across mobile web and native apps. - Helped drive strategic development and priority assessment for the website.

- Scaled unique visitors to 20 million (by more than 400%) in 12 months. - As HuffPost's entertainment editor, I oversaw the production of the entertainment section. I assigned and edited stories and managed the production of the e ... See more