Online Editor

Sergie Willoughby is a professional writer and editor who has written pieces about music, art, business and politics. She is the editor of The Network Journal print publication and the online editor of TNJ's website, TNJ.com. For the site, she develops, writes, assigns and edits creative, original content exclusively for the web; hires and manages freelance and contributing writers; and helps shape editorial content. For the magazine, she produces the People and Events sections of each issue and collaborates with the editorial team to execute TNJ's cover photo shoots.  

Willoughby joined The Network Journal in February 2010 as the assistant editor before being promoted to editor in February 2011. Earlier in her career, she worked briefly in television production and in public relations. As an in-house writer for a boutique artist management/production company in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she wrote spec scripts for independent films and television shows; wrote copy for advertising & marketing campaigns; assisted the agency in nurturing its roster of music artists; garnered media representation for the agency; and worked on-set as a production coordinator for television commercials. She covered hip-hop music, briefly, for the now defunct RYDE magazine. Willoughby currently teaches grammar and writing at Hunter College's School of Professional Studies. She was a journalism major at the University of Maryland at College Park before earning a bachelor’s degree in advertising & marketing communications from Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. In 2000, she completed a certificate in journalism from New York University's School of Continuing Education.