{"id":25147,"date":"2017-11-18T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25147"},"modified":"2017-11-18T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:21:25","slug":"apsu-department-of-communication-alumna-abbi-wilt-enjoying-dream-job-with-southern-living-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/11\/18\/apsu-department-of-communication-alumna-abbi-wilt-enjoying-dream-job-with-southern-living-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Department of Communication alumna Abbi Wilt enjoying “dream job” with Southern Living Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – An assistant digital editor with Southern Living Magazine, New Brunswick, Canada native \u2014 and Austin Peay State University alumna \u2014 Abbi Wilt already knows that she followed a rather unique path to her dream job.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a Canadian, I guess it\u2019s ironic that I work for a magazine that covers Southern culture, and it\u2019s something that my coworkers like to remind me of all the time,\u201d Wilt joked. \u201cBut I fell in love with the culture here, and I\u2019m able to do the things that I\u2019m truly passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay State University alumna Abbi Wilt.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Following her passion is what led Wilt to Southern Living, despite graduating from Austin Peay with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communication and a concentration in public relations.<\/p>\n

Weighing a job offer in PR shortly before graduation, Wilt said a last-second opportunity from publishing giant Time Inc. to serve as an editorial fellow with its magazine properties presented a \u201cfork in the road\u201d scenario for the then-Govs Programming Council president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could have taken a higher-paying job in public relations, but I\u2019m a writer through and through, and I knew (Time Inc.) would allow me to work under some of the best editors in the business, so I thought I\u2019d do it for a year and see where it went from there,\u201d Wilt said. \u201cMy fellowship was supposed to last from June 2015 through June 2016, but I was hired on in February 2016 when they decided they wanted to create an entirely new position for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working out of Southern Living\u2019s Birmingham, Alabama headquarters, Wilt produces and manages all of the magazine\u2019s food, home, style, garden and travel video content. And although she works in journalism, Wilt still uses the marketing and public relations background she received at Austin Peay, working with the magazine\u2019s marketing team on writing and developing content, as well as fielding pitches from representatives of brands and entertainers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful for my time at Austin Peay because I was able to learn from professors who cared about my passions, and the opportunities I received there prepared me for what I\u2019m doing today,\u201d Wilt said. \u201cI knew I had found my place when I first toured Austin Peay\u2019s campus, and if I had to choose a school again, I\u2019d still pick Austin Peay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – An assistant digital editor with Southern Living Magazine, New Brunswick, Canada native \u2014 and Austin Peay State University alumna \u2014 Abbi Wilt already knows that she followed a rather unique path to her dream job. \u201cBeing a Canadian, I guess it\u2019s ironic that I work for a magazine that covers Southern culture, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[22203,23,13763,28,262,8829,825,31251],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6xB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25148,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions\/25148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}