Multi-Platform Editorial Team Leaders
Scott Gramling, Managing Editor
Over the span of 17 years in magazine publishing, Scott Gramling has proven his ability to communicate and connect with readers. He succeeded at turning his sports obsession into his profession by coming up with several special newsstand publications as an associate editor at Sports Illustrated For Kids, where he also co-authored a biography on Ken Griffey Jr. He would later become an original member of the editorial team that launched FHM in the U.S., and he was named Editor-in-Chief less than three years later—under Gramling’s direction FHM would raise its total audience by 56 percent to nearly 6 million readers. One of the co-founders of media company 10Ten Media, Gramling joined the Tennis team as Managing Editor in 2010.
Ian Knowles, Creative Director
Bringing a sharp, consumer-friendly eye to design, Ian Knowles has wracked up more than a decade of experience overseeing prominent national magazine brands in both the United States and Europe. Born and raised in Northern England, he began his career designing the U.K. women’s consumer magazines Elle and More! Knowles later took the creative reigns of Britain’s most popular men’s magazine, FHM, before moving stateside for a seven-year stint as the Creative Director of the U.S. edition of FHM. He spearheaded the redesign of the Italian edition of Vanity Fair and also served as the Creative Director for the launch of Italian Condé Nast Traveler before joining the Tennis team in the role of Creative Director.
Editor Bios
Stephen Tignor, Executive Editor
Steve Tignor began playing tennis at age 8 on a family vacation in Vermont. He couldn’t take a single game from his dad but he was great at sweeping the courts afterward. He is a 1992 graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he helped the team win the 1990 NCAA Division III championship. He joined Tennis Magazine in 1998 and was named Executive Editor in May 2006. He also authors Concrete Elbow by Steve Tignor, a daily blog on Tennis.com, and has written about tennis or music for Slate.com, SPIN Magazine and the Village Voice.
Peter Bodo, Senior Editor
A preeminent voice in American tennis coverage for more than three decades, Pete Bodo began his long career at Tennis with a profile of Evonne Goolagong Cawley in the early 1970s. Since then, he has written hundreds of essays and profiles, half a dozen books, and presides over a lively ongoing dialogue with thousands of diehard fans at Peter Bodo’s TennisWorld, a daily blog launched on Tennis.com in 2006.
Bodo has covered every major tennis tournament multiple times, and gone on assignment for Tennis to locales such as Beijing, Monte Carlo, Ecuador, Moscow, Hawaii and Australia. He is a two-time winner of the WTA Writer of the Year Award, and also regularly appears as an expert commentator during coverage of Grand Slam events on ESPN and other TV networks.
While tennis has dominated Bodo’s professional life, he has also covered the Ali vs. Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight title fight, NCAA Final Four tournaments, Major League Baseball, world-class soccer matches, the Indianapolis 500, NFL playoffs, professional bass fishing, and was a principal “Outdoors” columnist for The New York Times.
He lives in New York with his wife and son.
Ed McGrogan, Editor, Tennis.com
After interning with Tennis.com in 2008 and two years as the website’s assistant editor, Ed McGrogan was named Online Editor in September 2010. In this time, he has covered Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, written for Tennis and Smash magazines and represented Tennis.com during the 2008 Olympic Games by providing live online commentary for NBC. He currently edits and writes for the website and recently created the Racquet Reaction blog.
Born in upstate New York, McGrogan graduated from SUNY Geneseo in 2005. He currently lives in Danbury, CT. A fan of most sports, he has written for Beckett Hockey, the leading publication of the trading card industry. And while his playing career got off to a late start, he plays as much tennis as possible today.
Richard Pagliaro, Senior Editor and Gear Guide Editor
A graduate of New York University, Richard has covered professional tennis for more than two decades. Prior to joining The Tennis Media Company, he served as editor for TennisWeek.com and was the tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in New York. He is a Tennis Channel contributor and has written for Racquet Sport Industry Magazine.
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