Dante Ciampaglia

Dante A. Ciampaglia is an award-winning editor and journalist with nearly two decades’ experience in lead editorial and strategy roles. At publications like Sports Illustrated and Newsweek, as well as in corporate non-profit environments, he has built, rebooted, and run digital publications with an audience-first philosophy and future-focused growth mindset to meet consumer needs, business targets, and market trends. He is a dependable leader and team builder with success managing, mentoring, and developing writers, editors, and creators, as well as training professionals to be better writers and communicators. And he is a reporter and critic whose work has been published by The Brooklyn Rail, LA Review of Books, The Paris Review, Metropolis, and Architectural Digest, among other publications.

Dante is also the publisher of the Retronym newsletter, a celebration of the culture and practice of editing and a conversation about the role editing, and editors, play in our media and society. And he runs the Retronym Editorial Co., a consultancy offering future-forward, human-first editorial strategy and solutions.