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• Oversaw editorial direction of nonprofit political/investigative digital news site
• Streamlined editorial workflow
• Commissioned and edited stories from pitch to publish

New York City

Oversaw special political debate production and polling.

• Directed award-winning news operation of flagship station for Time Warner Cable (Spectrum) Local News Group. Oversaw 250-member newsroom staff of NY1 News and NY1 Noticias, 24-hour local news channels seen in cable.
• Negotiated millions of dollars in contracts for on-air talent, outside contributors, vendors and social media aggregators, applying inventive methods to satisfy all parties while continuing at or under budget.
• Teamed with technical department to ensure NY1 & Noticias best utilized latest newsgathering methods, promoting daily use of bonded cellular systems that enable live reporting from remote locations without satellite.
• Collaborated with creative services on promotion of special and thematic coverage, working closely on scripts and video and graphic elements.
• Partnered with human resources on hiring, conducting final interviews and selections, developing and training news staff.
• Developed budget plans with financial services, explored revenue sources with media sales, identifying creative processes to save money while maintaining quality of news report. Worked with sales and marketing.

New York City

• Provided daily direction and oversight to entire NY1 News and NY1 Noticias newsrooms.
• Collaborated with all facets of news production team, providing editorial direction, guidance on story selection and headlines, web and social media coverage, and best deployment of resources, delivering latest and.
• Managed direction during breaking news events, responding quickly with strong editorial and technical plans, highly organized, both in the moment and future-focused to sustain live coverage, innovatively using limited.
• Played key role in planning award-winning coverage of major events, including blizzards and hurricanes, transit strike, Occupy Wall Street protests, papal visits, local and state elections and national political.
• Oversaw launch and operation of NY1 Noticias, city’s only 24-hour Spanish-language local news channel.

New York City

• Delivered daily editorial direction to reporters, copy-edited scripts, and provided guidance on story structure in 24-hour news environment.
• Mentored novice reporters, providing direction and training on working beats, locating news behind the story, and motivated veteran reporters, generating fresh interest and perspective on beats and story lines.
• Supplied daily editorial direction to assignment desk and producers, using comprehensive journalism and New York knowledge to relay importance and significance of stories and trends.
• Assisted in preparation and shaping daily editorial coverage of news channel, playing central role in daily news meetings and planning sessions.

New York City

• Oversaw creation of premier local political show, NY1’s nightly live Road to City Hall / Inside City Hall program, setting editorial direction, choosing guests, discussion topics, and writing anchor scripts.
• Established daily and long-term agenda for NY1’s political coverage, managing largest local TV political unit in New York State.
• Provided daily editorial direction to political unit staff, including copy-editing of scripts for reporters at City Hall and Albany.
• Directed anchor and control room staff during live productions.

New York City

Established contact and resource base for the assignment desk, set up and developed stories and protocols for reporters and the desk as NY1's first planning editor.

New York City

In charge of covering politics and government in New York City during last 2 years of tenure of Mayor Ed Koch, and first 2 years of Mayor David Dinkins.

New York City

Covered wide range of stories, with particular focus on politics, race relations, organized crime and labor, including campaigns, trials, hearings, spot news and features.

Brooklyn

Helped design and launch weekly newspaper directed at New York City's Black community. Directed reporters and photographers, assigned, developed and edited stories. Wrote news and feature stories on local, national and international subjects.

Brooklyn

Wrote multiple stories weekly for news service, providing content for the city’s Black media, encompassing news and feature stories on community politics, issues and movements.