Tanya Vece started out as a freelance writing intern for the television show "Saturday Night Live" and contributing entertainment pieces for The Steamboat Local in Colorado. She opened up her public relations firm, Gossip Media, in 2002. She worked to help Robert Downey, Jr. with the Silver Lake drug rehabilitation initiative. Tanya Vece started The Horse Chronicles online magazine in 2002. The magazine ran until 2008. Vece was the ONLY independent magazine to be credentialed by CNN to cover the Democratic convention in Las Vegas, as well as to be invited to cover the International Press Awards hosted by James Cameron and Alec Baldwin. She interviewed everyone from her friend Zach Galifianakis to Bumblefoot of Guns N' Roses. She also covered The Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and more.