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INTRODUCTION
Grace Lichtenstein
is an author and former New York Times reporter who currently writes, edits and does special projects for a variety
of clients. She is Southwest Editor of onthesnow.com and Executive Editor of the online newsletter Mountain
News Industry Report, and has been an online editor and writer for Healthscout.com Myprimetime.com, Excite.com and
CNNfn.com. She has done speeches, research and rewriting for individuals, companies and colleges. She was a founding editor
of the acclaimed Web site Sports for Women and also writes frequently for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
and Washington Post.
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
Ms. Lichtenstein currently does editing
and writing for the online Web site onthesnow.com and is executive editor of Mountain News Industry Report, the online
newsletter published by Mountain News Corporation.
From 1998-2001 Ms. Lichtenstein
did online editing for Healthscout, the Web service that supplies daily health news to The New York Times syndicate,
USA Today and hundreds of other affiliates. She was a contributing writer for the baby-boomer site Myprimetime.com,
the Dow Jones Business Directory, Business Week, Wired News and Gorp.com. From 1995 to 1997 Ms. Lichtenstein was an editor-writer
for Excite. She wrote critiques of thousands of Web sites for its database, created Excite Tours, and managed special projects.
In addition, she was a founder and executive editor of the independent Web site Sports For Women, a prime source of news about
female athletes, teams and fitness. Other online credits: CNNfn.com, MSNBC.com, America Online's The Book Report, and the
magazine Yahoo! Internet Life.
NEWSPAPER CAREER
For more than a decade she was a reporter and national
correspondent at The New York Times. As head of the Rocky Mountains Bureau, based in Denver, she covered politics,
business, sports, environment, entertainment, travel and other subjects in a 10-state territory. In New York, her beats over
the years included transportation, neighborhoods, and consumer affairs.
BOOKS
Ms. Lichtenstein has six books to her credit, including
A Long Way, Baby: Behind The Scenes in Women's Pro Tennis, Machisma: Women and Daring and Musical Gumbo:
the Music of New Orleans, written with Laura Dankner. Most recently, she contributed a chapter to Nike is a Goddess:
The History of Women in Sports (1998, Grove Atlantic hardcover).
MAGAZINE EXPERIENCE
In addition to serving as Executive Editor of World
Tennis, she has written for numerous other magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, Esquire,
Rolling Stone, My Generation and Outside. Her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review,
Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Book World.
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PUBLIC RELATIONS AND TEACHING
From 1993-5 she was Director of Public Relations at the
New School for Social Research, now the New School University. She handled media requests and publicity for its degree-granting
divisions, including Parsons School of Design, and its continuing education program. Ms. Lichtenstein has taught at the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism and at New York's City College.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Ms. Lichtenstein is a member of the Authors Guild, Journalism
and Women Symposium, and the International Women's Media Foundation.
EDUCATION AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
A native New Yorker, Grace Lichtenstein (maiden
name Rosenthal) graduated from Brooklyn College, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, with honors in Comparative Literature. Divorced
with no children, Ms. Lichtenstein counts among her hobbies skiing, bicycle riding and camping. In 1992, she spent 48 days
riding a bicycle cross-country from Seattle to Asbury Park, N.J., to raise money for breast cancer research. She chronicled
that journey in twice-weekly dispatches published in The New York Times.
REFERENCES
On request.
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