Abstract
When I graduated from college in 1985 with majors in chemistry and English, I had no idea that writing about chemistry was a job. But after failing to find work in book publishing, I came across a classified ad in the New York Times for a reporter at Chemical Marketing Reporter , a trade paper. I got the job and proceeded to work there for 13 years, rising to the role of editor in chief (EIC). It turned out I wasn’t comfortable being the face of the magazine, and when a business reporter position opened at the American Chemical Society , I took it. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the EIC job of a chemistry magazine. One reason, of course, is that I find myself again in that role, as interim EIC of C&EN. Another reason is that at the ACS Spring 2023 meeting in Indianapolis March 26–30,
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