Clara Germani Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Senior editor - magazine cover story project development, writing coach, and staff development

Boston

Managed multiple facets of a growing nonprofit journalism program in partnership with WGBH-News.· Planned, guided and edited investigative reporting projects on medical, financial, environmental, and child welfare issues · Brand development: promoted the Public Eye product to an expanding client list of small newspapers· Strategized with marketing, social.

Boston

• Conceive, assign, and edit 20 in-depth weekly news magazine cover stories a year on topics as diverse as immigration and education to foreign aid and global environment issues.
• Nominated by 3 war correspondents in Africa and the Middle East for the Dart Mimi award for sensitive editing and care for writers.
• Consistently met budgets by creative use of grants and using stringers on scene to eliminate travel costs.
• Planned and executed award-winning feature and investigative projects through excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Recruited and collaborated with a strong stable of freelance and staff writers by assiduously cultivating regular and efficient communication.

Boston

• Oversaw the launch and development of an online family news page and parenting blog, supervising an editor and writer in content creation and smart SEO.
• Drove web traffic to 1.2 million page views in first quarter by experimenting with SEO.
• Recruited and drew contracts for 12 free bloggers by effectively networking in and researching the family blog world.
• Increased ad revenue by $65K.

Boston

• Conceived, commissioned, and edited opeds from global thought leaders, effectively sharpening writers’ voices and coaching them in simplifying complex ideas.
• Won best op-ed series from the Association of Opinion Page Editors by overseeing an essay series by the mother of a US Army soldier in Iraq.
• Conceived and commissioned a project on Russian Orthodoxy that won The John Templeton European Religious Writer of the Year award.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Wrote a broad range of news and feature stories in Russia and the former Soviet republics, often under extreme circumstances from conflict reporting in Chechnya to expeditionary work in Siberia.
• Organized a 10-part series of profiles of post-Soviet citizens from Moscow to Vladivostok – including a Bolshoi ballerina and an indigenous reindeer herder in the Arctic.
• Managed a $200K budget and staff of 3.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Conceived, assigned, and developed daily and Sunday-edition projects from 12 Washington bureau reporters and two traveling national correspondents.

Miami-based

Responsible for news coverage of South America and parts of the Caribbean. Extensive time spent in Haiti.

San Francisco And Washington, D.C.

Reported features and news on education, immigration, environment, and anti-drug policy based first in San Francisco and then in Washington D.C.

Master Of Arts - Ma, American Culture Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Certificate, Spanish For Service Abroad