Paula Pou
Paula Pou is an associate editor at M. Shanken Communications, home to Wine Spectator and Cigar Aficionado, where she helps oversee Impact, the research department’s bi-monthly publication. Prior to joining Shanken, she spent four years reporting on branding and marketing trends at Adventure Publishing Group as an assistant editor. She has worked as a freelancer for lifestyle magazines such as Planet and sometimes wears a music journalist hat for indie blogs such as BrooklynVegan and Stereogum. She is a freelance fact-checker for American Express Publishing. She graduated from NYU in 2001 with a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature.