My First Byline: Ted Scheinman

Senior editor, Smithsonian magazine

Courtesy of Ted Scheinman

What is your current job?

Senior editor, Smithsonian magazine.

What was your first byline?

The Mid-York Weekly, based in Utica, New York, where I briefly served as assistant editor when I was 19. (It wasn't until my fourth byline at the Mid-York that I got something fun — a concert write-up when Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson played a…