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extremely happy to have an editor who cares about what goes into our eMagazine
- Caring is important; and editorial responsibility is not just a job,
it is an art form. Being an editor is different than flipping burgers,
and anyone who treats editorial responsibility in a frivolous way is a
cheat, on a par with those forgers who duplicate the masters for $200 a
pop. We have continuely tried to set higher and higher standards in our
choice of editors, because we care about what goes into our eZine... we
don't want to publish an 'also ran'. Yes, subscriptons to our eZine(s)
are free, so one might wonder why we should care - We care because our
reputation rests on the quality of our publications. We're trying
to build something long range here, we're not in this just for an hour,
and we don't want to provide the insipdid when we can, with more effort,
provide content that has lasting value.
We have a highly intelligent and
responsible editor in Gilly Rich, and we're proud of it. Gilly
Rich, joined us as Editor of Escape from America E-zine in May 2006 - Gilly
is a professional expat happily living in Argentina after years of searching
for paradise. She grew up as an expat because her father was in the Royal
Air Force and was frequently re-located (sixteen schools in as many years).
Having spent many of her formative years in the Far East with her family
Gilly developed a taste for warm weather and white sandy beaches; so after
graduating from Oxford with an Honours degree in Geography and Blues in
swimming and athletics, she took off to the Caribbean to work on charter
yachts before settling down to a ‘proper job’.
Gilly ticked off one of her ‘must
do’ items by sailing back to England from Antigua and then joined the UK’s
foremost television news company, (and sister network to America’s NBC
News) Independent Television News (ITN). After 15 years working
in ITN’s newsroom as an Operations Manager, she moved to Cyprus with her
war cameraman husband Sebastian and their daughter Sabina, for a ‘quieter
life’. As well as producing small budget documentary films with Sebastian,
and looking after Sabina, Gilly took up tennis, windsurfing and kitesurfing
in between writing articles, film treatments and starting on her first
book.
Earlier this year she re-located
with her family “hopefully for the last time!” to South America. |
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Gilly flying a bush plane
over Sudan
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Paradise is not a place; it is a state
of mind”. I read that somewhere, I think in an In Flight magazine
on some airline or other, and I’ve been searching for the right state of
mind ever since!!” |
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