Amy Granite Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

• Breaking news-obsessed assignment desk editor; managed up to 6 live crews per shift; weekend shift supervisor of editorial staff including photojournalists, reporters, editors, writers and digital team
• Editorial meeting leader and story idea-generator; shaped daily content and coverage; editorial calendar manager; multi-platform planner; enterprise story planning
• Fact checker and tip-line manager; vetted story ideas, fulfilled research requests for reporting staff, including public records requests, obtaining court records and LexisNexis
• Managed in-house story updates for ongoing court cases; breaking news social desk copy as needed; copy editor for digital stories as needed; digital content producer as needed with AP Style expertise
• Booker for taped and live interviews; editorial planner for special projects

• Assignment desk editor at Portland’s number one news station
• Weekend news planner; dayside supervisor of weekend news crews
• Editorial planner for Good Day Oregon (4:30a-10a) weekdays, plus the 5, 8, 9, 10 and 11 p.m.; editorial meeting leader; news fact checker and researcher
• Fill-in digital desk contributor, including social media and breaking news updates across multiple platforms utilizing AP Style

Greater San Diego Area

• Author of four weekly columns for DiscoverSD.com, a platform owned by the San Diego Union Tribune, in addition to its print product Pacific Magazine; special contributor to the San Diego Union Tribune; planned and.
• News and opinion story contributor with a focus on lifestyle and human-interest stories; author of Stepping Out, an anonymous retail column in the Sunday paper
• Assisted with social strategy, including copy for multiple platforms; wrote headlines and photo captions
• Photography on as-needed basis

Author of hundreds of lifestyle articles about food, art, culture and interesting people, published in the following: 944 Magazine San Diego; Pacific San Diego Magazine; San Diego CityBeat; West Coaster; The San Diego Union Tribune; Los Angeles Times; Night & Day; DiscoverSD.com; Vida Latina San Diego; Modern Luxury San Diego; The Espresso; The Radvocate.

San Diego

• Copy editor and fact checker for San Diego’s premiere craft beer publication; up to 10-14 pages monthly; planning and story idea manager
• Writer and cover story contributor; website editor utilizing CMS and SEO strategy; social copy writer/editor
• Style-guide creator

• Arts and Culture editor and columnist for San Diego’s alternative weekly publication; manager and line editor of section writers and freelance contributors; budget management; editorial calendar planning
• Author of Grubby Bitch, a popular column about cheap eats in San Diego
• Restaurant and art scene reporter; special projects contributor
• Regular blogger and content creator utilizing CMS and SEO strategy; newsletter writer

• Managed the planning, design and content for software application end-user manuals
• Wrote end-user manuals from conception to editing the finished product; website copywriting as needed
• Compiled, organized and wrote release notes, tracking changes for each version of software

• Identified and assigned stories to news writers, anchors and field reporters for a.m./p.m. broadcasts
• Editorial meeting leader/story idea contributor; weekend news planner
• Weekend newsroom supervisor; breaking news manager

San Diego Metropolitan Area

• Booked guests for Inside San Diego, KUSI's hour-long morning show; news planner
• Pitched and produced in-house entertainment segments with topics spanning cooking, gardening, fashion, self-care and travel