Shane Michael Singh
Editor and Writer in Beverly Hills, California
Shane Michael Singh
Editor and Writer in Beverly Hills, California
Shane Michael Singh is an award-winning journalist and editor based in Los Angeles. He is currently Executive Editor of Playboy, where he oversees content strategy, story development and editorial production for Playboy's print and digital platforms.
He specializes in executing cross-channel (video, social, print and web) editorial strategies as well as writing and editing culture features, investigative pieces, long-form interviews and reported stories related to the LGBT community, national politics, sexuality and celebrity culture. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a 2010 NASPA fellow, his 12-year career in journalism has taken him from covering New York City's red carpets to tracking the Windy City's restaurant scene to editing and writing for the iconic Playboy magazine.
In 2015, he served as top editor of Stephen Rebello's "The Making of the Mafia's Ultimate Home Movie," a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Goodfellas. The story won the L.A. Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for best entertainment feature.
In 2016 he served as a key staff member in the print relaunch of Playboy, which received one billion media impressions worldwide, writing both the cover story and the lead feature ("My Deportation") of the March 2016 issue. For the latter, he won the 2016 Folio: Eddie Award for Best Article in a Men's Magazine.
In 2017 he was named a Rising Star in journalism and media and a 30 Under 30 for his work overseeing Playboy's sex and politics coverage. In 2018, he led the relaunch of Playboy.com as a subscription-based, dual SFW/NSFW website featuring in-depth journalism authored by award-winning reporters and columnists, original video series, company-supported product pages, events portals and a membership program.
In addition, Shane has written for Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Time Out North America, Out, TV Guide and REALTOR, among others. For two years he penned a column, "The Singhle Life," for two LGBT news startups (one owned by Wrapports). He has interviewed Oscar winners, thought leaders, Playmates and Donald Trump.
A displaced Chicagoan vying for his own piece of digital real estate, you'll find Shane at Starbucks, where the baristas never know his name, on L.A.'s sun-baked kickball and soccer fields or working on his memoir, about growing up gay in Illinois' backcountry with a father indoctrinated by a religious cult.