Tracy Middleton

Thoughtful editorial manager and leader with an expertise in data-based, strategic storytelling that engages readers and consumers across platforms. • Skilled at translating complex health and wellness ideas and information into digestible, engaging, actionable content. • Thrive in an organization and on a team that is committed to making a real difference in people’s health and wellbeing.

Great features are a collaboration between writer and editor. Packing, finessing, and polishing raw copy until it shines is my forte. I've edited hundreds of stories over the years, by some of the world's best journalists. These are a few of my favorites.

Women's Health • 13th September 2016

Life After Rape: The Sexual Assault Issue No One's Talking About

One in five women have been sexually assaulted. Many may suffer PTSD that is often more severe and longer lasting than a combat veteran’s. Carrie Arnold investigated the unspoken aftermath of rape for me in Women's Health.

Women's Health • 25th March 2019

'Our Pain Is Invisible But We’re Not': 6 Chronic Pain Warriors Share Their Stories

A new movement is reframing how we think about, talk about, and treat the debilitating chronic pain that affects millions of women. Assigned to Kristen Mascia for Women's Health.

Women's Health • 23rd March 2018

Is Your Drinking Water Safe

As many as 63 million Americans may be consuming dangerous H20. I asked science writer Laura Beil to reveal what could be lingering in your faucet, how it got there, and what to do about it.

Women's Health • 6th June 2017

Could This Controversial Treatment Help More People Beat Heroin Addiction?

Legions of women are entering rehab to kick opioids and heroin, but the majority of them will fail, largely because they're being denied the treatment most likely to help them succeed. I asked award-winning writer Maya Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain, to investigate how the system got so broken.

Women's Health • 2nd March 2017

First, Do No Harm

We expect doctors to live by that golden rule of medical ethics. The darker reality: Sexual abuse by physicians happens shockingly often. And while their victims suffer years of physical and emotional fallout, most doctors go unpunished. This story, assigned to journalist Abigail Pesta, won the Newswomen's Club of New York's Magazine Feature award in 2017.

Women's Health • 6th June 2016

The Scary Ways Air Pollution Can Mess with Your Health

Air pollution isn’t just murder on the planet: Studies now show it can kill you too, via lung and heart disease, cancer, even dementia. Is a gas mask this summer’s most essential accessory?

Women's Health • 7th February 2019

The Ultimate Postpartum Guide: What Really Happens After You Give Birth

I conceptualized, assigned, and edited this 12-page feature in Women's Health. Written by award-winning writer Kelly Mickle, the feature was a National Magazine Award finalist in the Personal Service category in 2018

Cosmopolitan • 22nd May 2018

More Than 100,000 Americans Are Victims of Gun Violence Each Year. What Happens to Those Who Survive?

As the national debate around firearms rages on, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence, joined together to investigate wounds we can't see: the psychological trauma that takes hold in the aftermath. Cosmo Deputy Editor Meredith Bryant and I edited this piece, which appeared in all three outlets.

Women's Health • 16th September 2015

Mother F*ckers

As the 2016 election loomed, Gretchen Voss penned this expose for me about the lack of paid leave for American women, who are breadwinners in two-thirds of families with children.

Women's Health • 28th February 2014

What If Antibiotics Stopped Working?

After getting an antibiotic-resistant infection myself, I assigned Gretchen Voss to write about how we're on the brink of a dangerous era in which everyday diseases—ones that we're used to knocking out with pills—could become virulent killers.