Our Story

Triangle Media Partners is the largest lifestyle influencer in the Triangle and expert audience and content builders. Our marketing strategists offer custom, flexible and thoughtful marketing solutions for local businesses with targeted multimedia audiences. We help your organization grow traffic, leads and awareness.  Our team is dedicated to quality local content that serves our readers, local businesses and the community.

We are an Orange County Living Wage employer, and we are proud to say that we are a female-owned organization.

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Core Values

  • Support the Customer
  • Love Your Community
  • Enthusiasm First
  • Buy Local
  • Quality Always Wins

Our Staff

Leadership Team

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Rory Kelly Gillis

President of Triangle Media Partners

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Ellen Shannon

Director of Marketing, Co-Founder

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Chris Elkins

VP, Sales

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Ashlin Acheson

VP, Creative Operations

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Sally Scruggs

VP, Client Services

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Amy Bell

VP, Finance & Administration

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Cassady Orsini

Accounting and Administration Manager

Creative Operations Team

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Amanda MacLaren

Executive Managing Editor

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Morgan Weston

Multimedia Content Director

Jessica Stringer

Jessica Stringer

Editor, Chapel Hill Magazine

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Renee Ambroso

Assistant Editor, City Magazines
Managing Editor, Heart of NC Weddings

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Leah Berry

Editorial Assistant

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Caleb LeJeune

Multimedia Content Producer

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Creative Director

John Michael Simpson

John Michael Simpson

Photographer

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Lindsay Scott

Graphic Designer & Production Coordinator

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Khadijah Weekes Nolan

Ad Manager

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Matt Bair

Distribution Manager

Sales Team

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Jenna Parks

Multimedia Publisher + Director of Client Digital Strategy

Melissa Crane

Melissa Crane

Senior Account Executive

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Lucinda Poole

Account Executive

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Meagan Culkin

Associate Publisher, Heart of NC Weddings

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Sarah Davis

Account Executive

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Melissa Cooley

Account Executive

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Brian McIndoo

Client Onboarding & Operations Manager

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Jack Fry

Digital Marketing Manager

Our Founder

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Dan Shannon

Giving Back

Our host of magazine and digital publishing supports more than 100 nonprofits and events every year with over $150,000 of sponsorship advertising investment. Our team sits on the following boards and committees:

  • NAACP of Orange County
  • The Greater Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce
  • The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce
  • Chatham Chamber of Commerce
  • The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center
  • NC Alumni Committee for Racial and Ethnic Diversity
  • UNC Board of Visitors
  • Pittsboro Rotary and Chatham Chamber of Commerce
  • Meals on Wheels
  • GiGi’s Playhouse
  • Band Together
  • Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce
  • Triangle Non-profit Volunteer and Leadership Center
  • Helius Foundation

Diversity + Inclusion

Triangle Media Partners is an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of our community.

At Triangle Media Partners, our approach to diversity is simple – it’s about embracing everyone. We want all of our employees to feel valued and appreciated. We are committed to an inclusive workforce that represents different cultures, backgrounds and viewpoints. We reflect these same values in our relationships with our greater community, customers and vendors.

Careers

Seeking:
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    Editorial Assistant

    Role Overview: Ensure editorial content in our print and digital products is of the highest quality by following the direction of the executive managing editor and supporting daily assignments from the senior editorial team. Take active responsibility for making sure content is completed on time, accurate, engaging and interesting. Create connections with our communities by regularly attending events, meeting readers, interviewing subjects and bringing new ideas back to the creative operations team.

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    Internships

    We are looking for editorial interns who will gain experience fact checking, copy editing and writing for both print and web. Interns will work across all three city mag publications – Chapel Hill Magazine, Durham Magazine & Chatham Magazine – plus annuals like the visitors and relocation guides. Interns need to be proactive, organized and meticulous, and ideal interns would have experience with AP Style, WordPress and writing or editing for a student publication. Past interns have gone on to work or intern at Real Simple, Garden & Gun, Our State, Washingtonian and The Local Palate. If you’d like to apply for the editorial internship, please email a resume and writing samples to jessica.stringer@chapelhillmagazine.com with “editorial internship” in the subject line.

    We are also looking for a digital intern to help execute a social media strategy on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. and turn print articles into web posts, IG stories and other videos for social media. For the digital internships, please email morgan.weston@chathammagazinenc.com a resume, links to IG Reels or TikToks, and online story samples that exemplify creative headline writing.

    We are also looking for interns for Heart of NC Weddings magazine. Interns will have the opportunity to attend wedding industry events including vendor showcases and venue open houses, gain experience drafting weekly blog posts for the website and write posts for social media accounts. The ideal intern will have experience with WordPress, an attention to detail and enthusiasm for creating engaging social media content. If you’d like to apply for the Heart of NC Weddings internship, please email a resume and writing samples to renee.ambroso@trianglemediapartners.com with “HONCW internship” in the subject line.

    The internships are hybrid, and interns choose their days/hours; ideally interns could work a shift or two in our Chapel Hill office each week (open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

    • Spring (early January through last week of April) & fall (mid-August through end of November, plus the second week in December after finals are over) internships are 10 hours a week
    • Summer (May through August) & winter (December/January) internships are 20-25 hours a week.
    • Deadlines to apply: Nov. 30, 2024 (for winter break 2024/25), Dec. 15, 2024 (for spring 2025); April 15, 2025 (for summer 2025). If you've missed the deadline, reach out to inquire as sometimes we take intern applications on a rolling basis depending on the need.
    • The internship is unpaid but we will work with students to get school credit, and a select few interns will be invited back for a paid semester, this time paid.

    Want to know more?

    Book a discovery meeting with one of our Marketing Strategists for a custom and thoughtful marketing solution! 

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