Ben LaMothe
Ben is the founder of CityOnline Magazine. He is a postgraduate student at City University London in ePublishing. He has an bachelor's in journalism from Central Michigan University. He is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has professional experience with daily, weekly and monthly newspapers, news wires, glossy magazines, and public and talk radio. Ben is also the founder of Grand Central Magazine at CMU.
Anna Fortune
Anna Fortune is the travel editor for CityOnline and is currently a Postgraduate student at City University London in the MA international journalism programme. Anna obtained her BA degree in broadcast journalism with a minor in business administration. After graduating, she worked at E! Entertainment for two years in various production shows such as Love Ride, 12 Sexiest Hollywood Jobs and E! News Now. Anna is from Orange County, California but moved to London to obtain the international journalistic experience. She enjoys writing about business, politics and the environment. She hopes to work for The Economist and National Geographic.
Britni Salazar
Britni Salazar is the entertainment editor for CityOnline Magazine and is currently a Postgraduate student at City University London in the MA international journalism programme. Britni received her BA degree in journalism with a minor in history from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Britni is from the Midwestern part of the United States, but fell in love with traveling during her third year of undergraduate studies when she attended Sheffield University in Sheffield, England. She decided to move back to England to rekindle her love of travel, and to acquire knowledge about international journalism. Britni hopes to work for magazine publications in either the UK or the US when she has completed her MA.
Priyal Sanghavi
Priyal is the arts editor. She is from Mumbai, India. After graduating in economics in 2008, she realised her true calling was not stock figures but the open wide world of journalism. This decision came about after she interned for one and a half years at Mumbai Mirror, a tabloid from Times of India group. She worked on the culture beat doing articles on theatre, music, art, youth events and everything related to Mumbai occasionally jumping in to work with style and food. A second internship was with Asian Age, Mumbai where she continued with culture but also going full-time into feature writing, with articles published nationally. She is currently pursuing an MA in international journalism, specialising in entertainment writing
Claudia Saric
Claudia is the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for City Online Magazine. Currently, Claudia is studying at City University London to obtain her MA International Politics degree. She also interns at the British Museum Press, where she is the assistant to the Marketing and Publicity Manager. Claudia has participated in a variety of Marketing and Public Relations based internships. From late 2008 until early 2009, she entered the telco industry where she was the Assistant to the Marketing Director at Network Innovations headquarters in Chicago. In the not-for-profit sector, Claudia participated in PR and marketing focused internships at the American Health Information Management Association and ATHENA International. She obtained her BA from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois in public relations with a minor in psychology. She also studied abroad at the University of Sheffield in early 2007.
Tom Law
Tom is the current affairs editor. He's currently pursuing an MA in international journalism at City University London. He was part of the team that founded The Juba Post, an independent newspaper for South Sudan, which published for the first time 9 January 2005. He spent a year between his second and third year studying International Development Studies at the University of East Anglia researching his dissertation on migration in post conflict areas of South Sudan.
Karolina Tagaris
Karolina is a student journalist, pro bono. In 2007 she moved from Athens to Istanbul to try her hand at journalism with Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's biggest English-language newspaper. Before that she worked at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), an Athens-based think-tank. Karolina holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Nottingham. She is fascinated by the Middle East and when she grows up she wants to get paid to travel.
David Gordon
David is the managing editor. Born in Accra, Ghana, David moved to London aged six. Currently in his first year, he is studying at City and Queen Mary University. His first experience of journalism was at the age of 14 when he joined the quarterly youth magazine, Nang! as deputy Editor. In 2006 he became Editor-in-Chief and in his 14 months in charge he won four national awards including The Guardian Student Magazine of the Year 2007, beating the likes of Oxford and UCL. He’s also written for the Sky News website and conducted seminars on volunteering and student journalism to teenagers.
Emiliano Mellino
Emiliano is the UK affairs editor. He had his first taste of travel aged six, when he and his family left their native Argentina for the U.S. on an odyssey that five years later landed them in the UK. A month after completing a BSc in international relations at the London School of Economics, Emiliano headed to Spain where he spent two years working as an English teacher. His journalism career kicked off in Guatemala, covering crime and the 2007 elections for Nuestro Diario, the country’s biggest-selling newspaper. Back in Europe, Emiliano has been working as a teacher, translator and freelance copywriter for the PR and marketing firm Metia. He is currently studying for an MA in international journalism at City University.
