Meet Tagg magazine’s new editor and owner
Sondra Rose Marie was chatting with friends after attending Portland’s LGBTQ Film Festival when her friend suggested that she take some of her ideas from the table to the media.
Since then, she has written for Tagg magazine and in December was named editor in chief and new owner. Marie has a background in creative writing, so she had to learn the fundamentals of journalism as she went along. “‘Ask to record, ask pronouns, ask names,’ that was all stuff that I was learning as I was going,” she said.
Founder and former editor Eboné Bell was a big help teaching her everything she needed to know about the profession, Marie said.
After two years as a freelance writer, she moved up to senior content writer and spent nearly five years in that role before she became editor in chief of Tagg. “I noticed right away with Tagg that they were speaking to everyone in the community, and so I really wanted to be a part of that,” said Marie.
