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Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area

Responsible for conceptualizing and gathering content for for a 75,000 circulation, Advance Media-owned-newspaper that covered western Massachusetts. Promoted to supervisory role in 2019. Duties include curating and editing of both news and feature stories for daily and advance sections of the newspaper, including and not limited to the A section, including Page One, advance local sections; weekly daily sections sent throughout both western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut, Page One and A content for the Sunday newspaper and Sports section. Other tasks include news writing and gathering across multiple platforms, updating text on MassLive, scheduling of staff, creation and scheduling of special sections including NFL and MLB previews and story assignments. Also served as liaison between content and press and served a key role in department’s transition to new working software.

Manchester, Connecticut

Promoted from Associate Editor to supervising editor of multi-page leisure and lifestyle section for 35,000-circulation, family-owned, daily newspaper in north central Connecticut. Manage editorial and composition staff of four. Responsible for conceptualizing, assigning, writing and editing of feature stories as wells as the page design, layout and composition of both daily pages and weekly food and entertainment sections. Ensure accuracy and conformance with Associated Press and internal style standards. Prior duties included writing stories, copy editing and pagination support for all Living section pages; provided copy editing and page design support for both News and Op-Ed desks when needed.

Danbury, Ct

Night-desk position for 35,000-circulation, Dow Jones-owned daily newspaper that covered northern Fairfield County. Job duties included copy editing, layout, and page design for both sports and news sections, with a heavy emphasis in sports. Tasks performed included writing stories, news gathering, copy editing, designing local pages, wire pages, A-1, town page section covers. sports covers. Assisted with page design and copy editing for paper’s weekly publication, The Spectrum.

Westfield, Massachusetts

Supervising editor of multi-page sports section for 8,000-circulation daily newspaper. Supervised editorial, photography and composition staff. Responsible for conceptualizing, assigning, writing and editing of news and feature stories, with heavy emphasis on high school sports coverage, page design, layout and composition. Supervised and created special projects including bi-annual high school sports previews, Thanksgiving Day football preview and annual Business and Industry Review. Served as member of paper’s senior editorial staff, providing input into daily operations of the newspaper.

Springfield, Massachusetts

Credentialed member of the American Hockey League working press. Conducted interviews and wrote feature stories for official publication of AHL franchise.

Greater Atlanta Area

Assisted sports department editors, producers and anchors for nightly “Sports Tonight” broadcasts. Edited highlights, gathered news and information, prepared research and statistics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism

Associate'S Degree, Television Production

Cum Laude graduate