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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles

Line edits hard news dailies and narrative enterprise stories. Works with reporters on national, international and project teams (data, investigations); helps focus and structure stories and identify holes; talks through problems during reporting and writing; coordinates between video, photo, design, legal, and programming teams. Edited investigation of.

Los Angeles

Daily story assignment to national reporters and foreign correspondents; editing dailies and in-depth enterprise pieces; brainstorming story angles with reporters; maintaining story budgets; coordinating reporters in the field during breaking news stories, including the Brussels terror attacks and the Pulse night club shooting; running live blogs; taking.

New York City

Daily story assignment to team of 12 reporters; guiding reporters in field during breaking news situations; managing team of 5 front page editors; coordinating coverage of major ongoing news stories across news department; overseeing splash changes; evaluating enterprise pitches; brainstorming story angles, framing, and story formats; maintaining editorial.

New York City

Initiating and signing off on splash changes; story assignment; taking feeds from reporters in the field during breaking stories and weaving them into an evolving narrative, guiding coverage of major developing news stories (Ferguson and Baltimore protests, Ebola, the crash of Flight MH17). Interviewed potential new hires, trained new hires.

New York City

Story selection, headline writing, photo selection, splashes for Huffington Post front page; quickly writing up breaking news and aggregated quick hits; story assignment, line editing, working with reporters to better frame stories; running live blogs; guiding direction of coverage.

Wrote aggregated and reported pieces; assisted senior homepage editors Tuesday-Friday, edited homepage and assigned to team of web reporters on Saturdays; produced wire stories and packaged content with polls, galleries and video.

Helped develop and implement ProPublica’s first social media strategy, wrote explainers and short reported pieces riffing off the news cycle, compiled weekly roundup of investigative journalism co-published with Slate.

Fact-checked reported pieces, solicited and edited submissions to The Nation’s student blog, copy edited staff blogs, ran The Nation’s Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

Blogged on immigration issues and wrote longform reported features.

Wrote news, features and editorials; edited articles, assigned stories and managed staff; coordinated special issues, elections coverage.

Covered local news, took photos, shadowed journalists at a regional newspaper in rural Brandenburg, Germany.

B.A.

Activities and Societies: The McGill Daily

Journalism

Intensive summer program

International Baccalaureate