Report on trending topics, with an emphasis on entertainment and pop culture news.

• Contributed business news and feature stories.• Shared stories about innovation, startup culture and consumer trends.

• Wrote news and feature stories for the newspaper’s business and metro sections.• Covered food and beverage, for-profit education and fitness industries.• Attended shareholder meetings for Chicago-area companies.• Checked analyst reports for industry trends.• Monitored legislation impacting local businesses.• Relayed fashion and beauty trends and reported on lifestyles topics for the features section.

• Reported on business topics, insurance companies and hospitals for the weekly publication.• Covered the American Medical Association House of Delegates meetings establishing policy on health, medical, professional and governance matters.

• Covered the insurance and health care industries and small business for the newspaper’s business section.• Followed state legislative session to reform property and casualty and workers’ compensation insurance.