Colleen Murphy Email & Phone Number

• Train our growing network of local reporters to hold colleges accountable for their promises and to deliver to students and families the information they need to make choices about their futures
• Seed and strengthen story ideas, provide tools and training to reporters and foster more knowing coverage
• Coordinate and nurture partnerships with 14+ local newsrooms
• Member of 2024 Institute for Nonprofit News Emerging Leaders Council

Washington, D.C.

• Trained college journalists at the CalMatters College Journalism Network; oversaw coverage of private colleges on four-student team, edited newsy features, coached reporters through reporting process — efforts that led.
• Guided a first-time author through a 90,000 word book project (Crown Publishing) that has received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780593443224
• Reported on community colleges, recruiting, career readiness, curricula, and student retention efforts for the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Created a curriculum for a School of the New York Times two-week course focused on policy reporting and activism — with an emphasis on local news, media literacy, and solutions journalism

Washington, D.C.

• Built breaking news strategy, leading a 9-person team that routinely broke the biggest news on tax policy
• Overhauled coverage of the courts, managing 2 legal reporters who show why tax decisions matter for companies and attorneys
• Lead editor on story that won two SABEW awards in 2020, for breaking news and business reporting

• Shaped coverage of the IRS and Capitol Hill by working closely with reporters on sourcing and story development
• Created (and served as lead writer of) daily newsletter explaining tax policy developments in Congress, built workflow for editing and writing process

• Managed reporting on U.S. tax reform’s global impact as lead editor for international tax, oversaw copy flow that spanned several time zones
• Directed breaking news, enterprise, and daily coverage

• Led award-winning coverage of Congress and once-in-a-lifetime tax reform efforts
• Regularly appeared on Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg TV, WNYC's The Takeaway

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Communication, Spanish

Activities and Societies: GW Hatchet (editor in chief + president of Board of Directors)

High School