First Mover: Bill Phillips

The new Men's Health editor on learning to love the Web and how he's not like Dave Zinczenko

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Age 43

New gig Editor in chief, Men’s Health

Old gig Editor of MensHealth.com

What’s it like going over to a print magazine after editing the website for the past few years?

I was a print editor for 18 years, until 2009, and the tough transition was actually from print to digital because I didn’t have any understanding of how a website worked. Digital is a different mind-set, but you can learn a lot of great lessons.

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