MarketInk: Cannabis Freelancer Becomes Managing Editor of San Diego Magazine

San Diego Journal has employed Jackie Bryant, a area freelance author recognized for specializing in hashish enterprise and lifestyle, as managing editor.

Bryant, a freelancer in San Diego considering that 2015, begins her new work May perhaps 2. She designs to proceed writing “Cannabitch,” a every month publication printed on the Substack system.

“This all has occurred quite quick,” Bryant explained to Moments of San Diego. “I’ve carried out properly as a freelancer these past couple of decades, and I’m loud and proud of it. On the other hand, freelancing usually takes a great deal of time relative to its variable shell out and deficiency of institutional assistance.”

“The possibility to help make an impact at San Diego Journal was far too fantastic to pass up. So, below we go with a new lifetime chapter,” she reported.

Bryant is a previous San Diego Magazine contributing freelancer with prior articles about travel, meals, wine, spirits and the arts.

She also has published about eating places for Eater San Diego. For virtually five a long time, she wrote a cocktail column for Ranch & Coast Magazine. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Greatest American Travel Writing anthologies in 2020 and 2021.

She has lined San Diego for Bisnow, reviewed film festivals for The San Diego Union-Tribune and served as life style editor at JustLuxe and the editor of Luxurious Residing Intercontinental.

Having said that, in current years, her enthusiasm has been the cannabis conquer, which has involved the cannabis organization, culture, felony justice, science, merchandise and client facts and policy. She has penned about cannabis legalization and the occupation for MJBizDaily, Voice of San Diego, San Francisco Chronicle, Leafly, California Leaf, Diverse Leaf Significant Situations, Sierra, Playboy, Hashish Now, Healthline, Uproxx, SF Gate, Forbes and other people.

She has appeared in federal courtroom as an professional witness on the cannabis plant and the Southern California hashish field. She has been a speaker at various conferences, together with Roth Capital’s Girls in Hashish convention and a Coldwell Banker event on cannabis and commercial authentic estate.

Beginning in 2018, Bryant grew to become the hashish columnist for the now defunct San Diego CityBeat, in which she achieved Seth Combs, previous CityBeat editor-in-chief who joined San Diego Magazine as editor in chief in March 2022. San Diego Metropolis Beat ceased publishing in March 2020.

“After crafting a whole lot about food stuff, wine and vacation, I threw all my eggs into hashish creating and am happy to have nurtured that conquer on a area, regional and nationwide foundation,” mentioned Bryant.

Bryant also is a longtime colleage of Troy and Claire Johnson, who obtained San Diego Journal in 2021 from Jim Fitzpatrick, who owned the journal for 27 yrs. Troy, a longtime food stuff author who formerly wrote for CityBeat, is also a Tv set identity who has appeared as a choose in a lot more than 100 episodes of Foods Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Video games.”

“I’ve acknowledged Seth and Troy for various years and lengthy admired their perform. I’ve been viewing how they’ve been modifying the journal in the latest months,” Bryant reported. “San Diego Magazine may well be regarded as previous-time, legacy media, but we all know the media financial state is modifying and the magazine is lively in multi-media, podcasting, video clip and social media. I’m energized to be element of the subsequent section of the magazine’s development and direction.”

A indigenous of New York, Bryant has lived in San Diego given that 2014. “My ex-husband’s occupation brought me to this wonderful city,” she stated.

Bryant graduated in 2008 from Connecticut University in New London, Conn., where she double-majored in U.S. govt and religious research.

She succeeds Erica Nichols in the magazine’s managing editor position. Nichols had worked at the magazine for two years.

Raindrop Launches Sister Agency Mari + Gold for Hospitality

Raindrop Agency, a San Diego innovative promoting company, has released a sister agency termed Mari + Gold with know-how in the hospitality, tourism and way of living industries.

A Raindrop assertion explained Mari + Gold will provide various existing Raindrop clients, such as Jazzercise, Inc., Del Mar Racetrack, T S Dining establishments, San Diego Symphony, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Brigantine Dining places and Rubio Coastal Grill dining places.

Mari + Gold will begin with a crew of about 20 workers, many of whom are coming from Raindrop Company and all with encounter in hospitality, tourism and way of life industries. Raindrop has a staff members of 77 personnel, a spokesperson claimed.

Companies will include things like manufacturer setting up and development, web site preparing, style and management, general public relations, organic social media administration, vertical video clip generation, influencer advertising and marketing, design and style, pictures, e mail internet marketing and media organizing and shopping for.

The phrase Mari is “sea” in Latin and gold inspires inner thoughts of sun, heat, pleasure and luxury. “The name Mari + Gold is meant to evoke holiday vacation thoughts and depict all matters joyous, enjoyable and sophisticated about its property city of San Diego and the industries in which the agency will focus,” claimed the Raindrop assertion.

Mari + Gold co-founders incorporate a few Raindrop executives: Jacques Spitzer, chief executive officer Adam Wagner, chief functions officer Carrie Jones, chief communications officer. President of Mari + Gold will be Nicole Bushnell, former chief advertising officer of Punch Bowl Social and Backyard garden Contemporary Eating places. Bushnell is a former Raindrop shopper.

“In my years as a main advertising officer, Raindrop was my agency of option. The team’s passion, partnership and top quality of function is unmatched,” said Bushnell. “I’m thrilled to bring my marketplace knowledge and client viewpoint to Mari + Gold and offer you the highest level of innovative promoting and agency partnership to manufacturers throughout the place.”

According to Jones, “We’re thrilled to now provide a holistic and specialised company spouse for hospitality, tourism and way of life consumers. Following many years of diversifying clientele and expert services at Raindrop, we designed Mari + Gold to supply a tailor-made shopper practical experience by our crew of talented authorities who live and breathe these industries. We’re enthusiastic for the possibilities this new chapter provides for Mari + Gold’s passionate, focused team to enable customers in these industries prosper in today’s industry.”

Radio Listening Helps Dieters Reduce Pounds

Radio and its many new music formats can enable dieters realize their bodyweight reduction objectives, according to report from The Media Audit.

As reported by Insider Radio, an sector trade publication, the musical surroundings developed by radio permits dieters to concentrate on their wellbeing regime, like cooking and exercising, with fewer interruptions. Also, radio connects advertisers to an usually-affluent audience ready to expend bucks to lose lbs and live a more healthy way of life.

“Because radio reaches many demographics of dieters, it can be a pretty efficient and economical medium for advertisers providing a huge assortment of products for dieters,” stated Nick Miller of The Media Audit. “From extra balanced decisions at the grocery store to training and other sporting goods machines to apparel for physical functions to well being club memberships, radio connects advertisers with the increasing range of older people committed to currently being healthier.”

The report explained dieting has a wide attraction across all four major generational groups, which include Gen-Zers, Millennials, Gen-Xers and Little one Boomers. Major exposure to radio of a lot more than a few several hours in the course of the average working day strongly correlates with the 3 youngest generations of dieters, the report explained.

San Diego Push Club Provides Freelancers Panel

The San Diego Push Club will current “Going Impartial,” a totally free webinar that includes a panel of a few freelance journalists, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 3, about Zoom. The community is invited to show up at.

The freelancers, which include Jackie Bryant, Jodi Ettenberg and Mike Sowden, will discuss instruments and methods available to impartial journalists, which includes the Substack and Patreon platforms for e-newsletter creators, as perfectly as how to make a paid next.

Bryant, writer of the “Cannabitch” publication, has specialized in the cannabis beat. She was just lately named running editor of San Diego Magazine.

Ettenberg, a previous law firm, writes material for her internet site titled “Legal Nomad.” Her function has also appeared in The New York Instances, National Geographic, BBC Travel and The Guardian. Following a lumbar puncture remaining her disabled in 2017, she also writes about curiosity, resilience and the difficulties of everyday living changes.

Sowden, a travel writer, also writes a paid out publication about the science of curiosity titled “Everything is Astounding.”

Rick Griffin is a San Diego-centered general public relations and marketing expert. His MarketInk column appears weekly on Mondays in Occasions of San Diego.