• Pitched and edited stories from our reporters and critics on topics that covered the depth and breadth of pop culture: music, movies, TV, celebrities, trends, deaths, lawsuits and more.• Managed reporters of varying degrees of experience (from newly hired interns to critics in position for a decade); at one point, oversaw 11 writers across three different verticals.• Regularly worked with other departments -- photo, design, graphics, video, social, homepage -- to put together enterprise stories that were longer reads and had enticing multimedia elements and visuals.• Maintained a stable of freelancers for long-form stories -- celebrity profiles, oral histories -- that ran in our Sunday Arts & Style print section.• Functioned as the breaking news arm of the Features department, chasing down leads and crafting language for alerts, as well as editing the stories in question.• Organized coverage for all related live events, including coordinating staffing, scheduling the rollout of stories for optimum audience engagement, assigning and editing pieces in the lead-up as well as night of, and determining which angles were worthy of next-day deep dives. • Was lead editor on Sundays through 2021, representing Features at meetings, determining which news to pursue, and choosing our line-up for both print and digital.

• Regularly edited articles from reporters on a number of pop culture topics, including TV recaps, criticism and straight breaking news.• Organized and coordinated coverage for live events such as the Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, Emmys and White House correspondents' dinners.• Produced multimedia articles and graphics, helping to code a number of stories and projects.• Pitched visual elements to accompany features to help attract a wider audience and up reader engagement.• Wrote several articles on a wide range of subjects, from celebrity interviews to TV show analysis to star deaths and lawsuits.• Won awards for digital innovation, such as second and third place in the same year from the Society of Features Journalism for my work on a fall TV preview and a best albums project.

• Produced high-quality articles and section fronts by adding relevant elements for dynamic pages and improved click-through rates.• Used SEO knowledge and metric tracking to write engaging headlines and blurbs that attracted readers and increased traffic across Web, mobile and iPad platforms.• Monitored wires and trends to determine which stories should be highlighted on the homepage and relevant section fronts, as well as on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.• Used timely, decisive and pertinent judgment to determine what was newsworthy and how it could best be curated and packaged for optimal reader interest.• Regularly edited and published blog posts and articles on a rotating solo, unsupervised overnight shift.• Pitched, created, edited and contributed original blog posts for The Style Blog and (now-defunct) Celebritology.

• Represent American University’s School of Communication at large prospective student events.• Give tours to potential students and give input on ways to highlight the SOC department on campus.• Head the web committee which helps with the ambassadors' online presence, gathering work and posting it to an aggregated website.

• Wrote entertainment blogs for the station’s website.• Conducted research surrounding the radio market and public reception of songs, edited audio for individual projects, posted audio and production projects from “The Kane Show” and Toby Knapp’s shows online, edited scheduled syndicated shows for final log and documented daily log information.• Featured on air several times in various skits and conversations on DJ Toby Knapp’s various radio shows in different states and platforms (including Sirius XM), and Rob Kruz’s show on HOT.

• Editor in charge of the arts and entertainment section of American University’s campus newspaper; wrote and edited entertainment feature articles and interviews.• Corresponded and networked with various public relations companies and pitch stories for our student-run campus newspaper.• Experience having sit-down interviews with several actors including: Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning and director Richard Linklater.

• Wrote entertainment blogs, ranging from features to question and answer sessions with musical artists.• Posted events and concerts listings for local D.C. entertainment acts.• Networked with other blogs and PR representatives to spread presence of our Web site.

• Co-hosted a television show on American University’s campus television network, ATV.• Discussed and critiqued students’ and local filmmakers’ work through interviews and stand-ups (example at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPr3NhVVxqc).