Boonsri Dickinson is an
Assistant Editor at DISCOVER magazine. After graduating with a master’s
degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado at
Boulder, she pursued journalism. Boonsri
bought a one-way ticket from Boulder to New York to intern at DISCOVER
magazine in December 2006. After the internship ended in March, Boonsri
was hired as an Assistant to Bob Guccione Jr., then CEO and
Publisher at DISCOVER and a successful magazine entrepreneur who
launched both SPIN and GEAR.
Under Bob, she learned how to think
about big ideas, how to expand business opportunities, and how to
write. In October 2007, Boonsri was promoted
to assistant to the Editorial Director, Patti Adcroft (former
editor-in-chief at OMNI, Marie Claire, and Seventeen). Under Patti’s mentorship, Boonsri learned more
than just what makes a good story, including what makes a good
magazine, the importance of branding, and how magazines can go beyond
being a product and become a public service. A year later, Boonsri
was promoted to Assistant Editor. When she’s not closing an
issue, she’s writing features and blogging for Discoblog. Boonsri
works across all media platforms from print to online to video,
covering the most interesting and compelling stories, and has written on
topics from DNA testing, to cell phones and brain cancer, and security scanners. While at DISCOVER, Boonsri
has grown as a journalist, and considers her job the perfect one: for
it combines her training as a scientist, with her passion for writing.
