About Me:

Carla Spartos is an editor, writer and content specialist based in the New York City area with more than a decade’s experience working at some of the world’s most iconic media brands. She’s a goal-oriented team leader with a passion for generating and developing new ideas; creating sharp, stylish content with a flair for storytelling and growing audiences.

Carla has long been captivated by publishing. She was a staff editor on her middle school newspaper, The Courier — the longest-running middle-school newspaper in the country — where she penned an exposé on recycled cafeteria food and a deep dive into teen suicide. Later, she served as the editor-in-chief of the White Plains High School yearbook.

After graduating from Cornell University, she worked at The Village Voice and Rolling Stone magazine. Her first-ever front-page story delved into illegal, underground bungee-jumping off NYC bridges. As an editor, she spearheaded the Village Voice’s “Best of New York” issue, and developed a specialty in music and nightlife coverage. Her music reviews for artists such as Bob Marley and Joan Jett were featured in “The New Rolling Stone Album Guide” (Fireside, 2004).

As a digital producer for New York Magazine, she helped grow the site’s restaurants, nightlife and fashion verticals. She launched a special digital package about NYC cocktail culture (including trends, classics and top bartenders), and her piece about NYC rooftop bars, which ranked at the top of Google search, was updated annually. By creating a microsite of evergreen designer content, she helped establish the site as a Fashion Week authority.

An avid home cook and daughter of a Greek-American restaurateur, Carla has long been obsessed with food and wine. As senior online editor at Zagat Survey, she launched nine city blogs and email newsletters covering the most exciting new openings, from LA to London to NYC. As food writer and food editor at the New York Post, she profiled the great Anthony Bourdain, dined inside an Italian prison and investigated a high-profile restaurant fight between Vogue editor Anna Wintour and businessman Serge Becker.

In 2011, her restaurant coverage won a New York State Associated Press Association award for feature writing, for a series of New York Post articles co-written with colleague Brian Niemietz ("Don’t Mess With the Chef!", "Is Your Restaurant Spying on You?" and "Hey, What the Check?!"). Her essay about hangovers for Tin House literary magazine was chosen for inclusion in "Food & Booze: Essays and Recipes" (Tin House Books, 2006), which also featured the work of Lydia Davis and Francine Prose. 

During her tenure as daily features editor of the New York Post, Carla has helped usher the newspaper into the digital era. She has implemented numerous workflow changes to grow traffic, pivot coverage and expand the brand’s reach. The number of articles her team publishes daily has grown five-fold, while page views in the Living and Entertainment verticals continue to show impressive year-over-year growth.

Feature content under Carla’s leadership has won awards, gone viral and sparked conversation, from Twitter to the a.m.-talkshow circuit. In 2020, two stories she edited won AP awards in the Arts/Entertainment category (Chris Cameron’s "Meet the Ultimate Keeper of Secrets" and Chuck Arnold’s "Woodstock LP's Iconic Couple Still Has a Groovy Thing"). Buzzy talkers produced by her team included articles about fillers to correct "resting bitch face", men infiltrating The Wing and a baby born from a 27-year-old embryo.