Adrian Rush Email & Phone Number

Wallace, ID, US

Evening and weekend editor for fool.com; I also perform a final edit on The Motley Fool's subscription newsletters before they go to press.

Sole proprietorship offering editorial services.

• Edited financial-oriented copy from a stable of contractors and freelancers, and published completed copy to the Web. Back-read stories that other editors published. Average workload was approximately 10 primary edits.
• Served as the company’s point person for matters of grammar. Offered frequent writing and grammar tips to our contract and freelance authors, most of whom were not professionally trained writers.
• Ran the copy desk in supervisor’s absence.
• Compiled and edited a daily e-mail digest of the top stories on The Motley Fool’s Web site.
• Maintained a daily Excel spreadsheet to track the status of every story the copy desk handled, from first edit to last read. A typical workload for the copy desk was 70 to 80 stories per day.
• Edited and prepared copy for the launch of a Web site promoting the company’s mutual fund. Assisted legal team in preparing the fund’s prospectus for SEC approval. Continued to implement additions and updates to the.

• Edited news and analysis pieces for a weekly political-policy magazine, as well as for several special publications throughout the year. Members of Congress and their staff were the magazine’s target audience.
• Traveled with the company to Boston and New York City to help cover the 2004 Democratic and Republican conventions. Copy desk edited a nightly convention newspaper, which was distributed to convention delegates.

• Edited client-provided copy, as part of a designer-editor team, for a wide variety of campus publications, including brochures, booklets, newsletters, magazines, ads, and posters. Helped clients to identify target.
• Annually led the production of the "Bulletin of Information, Undergraduate Programs." Edited copy, created a production schedule, maintained a campus contact list, distributed proofs and collected revisions for three.
• Wrote and maintained a house style guide. Wrote the copy for the department’s Web site. Cowrote and edited the copy at mark.nd.edu, a resource page for a standardized graphic-identity system that our department created.
• Oversaw the work of the department’s junior editor and served as her mentor.

• Edited news copy and wrote headlines for four daily editions and other weekly publications.
• Paginated the inside “A” section pages.
• Served as the wire editor for the Saturday edition.
• Updated stories and photos on the newspaper’s Web site twice weekly.

• Reported on area municipal-board meetings as part of an assigned beat and occasionally wrote feature stories for all three papers, beginning with the Gazette while still in college.