Craig winston

Craig Winston’s career would make a great BuzzFeed quiz.

Craig has:

A) Been managing editor of a national magazine;

B) Sold ads for the Miss Universe program;

C) Worked as an editor in Tokyo;

D) Been a bouncer on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

If you guessed all of the above, you would be correct.

Craig has a solid background in newspaper writing and editing at Newsday, The Hartford Courant and The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. He ended up in Tokyo after losing a bet with his wife, also a journalist, who wanted to work there, and reinvented himself as a financial editor at Nikkei’s Japan Economic Journal.

Back in the U.S., he joined the Manhattan-based National Sports Daily, a bold journalistic experiment that didn’t last.

In 1993, with the infographics craze under way, he became an assistant news editor/graphics at Newsday. When its New York edition folded, he accepted a buyout and an offer to work on a magazine prototype, Total Sports. Eventually it was purchased by Disney and became ESPN The Magazine, which collected several American Society of Magazine Editors’ general excellence awards during Craig’s tenure as director of research. In addition to the magazine, his portfolio included supervising research for ESPN Books, including sports encyclopedias and nonfiction works.

When the magazine moved to Bristol, Conn., from Manhattan in 2011, Craig played a major role in rebuilding the staff and orchestrating the huge move. He was promoted to managing editor and held that position for five years.

Currently he works as an editorial consultant for an extraordinarily diverse group of clients, is the senior deputy editor for PTSD Journal, a startup service magazine/website and has done some pro bono editorial work. He continues to look for new challenges. And in his downtime, he helps care for his three children.