Sactown is a new bimonthly magazine serving the Sacramento region. Its founders and co-editors are Rob Turner and Elyssa Lee. Turner is a Sacramento native and UC Davis graduate who moved to New York in 1995 to write for publications such as
Money,
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal, and
U.S. News & World Report. Lee is a graduate of Boston University, who worked at
Money magazine, and joined
InStyle in 1999, where she remains a contributing writer. Turner and Lee, who are married, moved back to Sacramento in 2004. The publisher is Stephen Childs, former president of
Texas Monthly, the largest regional magazine in America.
