Managing Editor, Washington Examiner Magazine
CurrentAugust 2022 – Present* Assign and evaluate story pitches from website staff reporters and outside contributors for the magazine’s Washington Briefing section (politics and policy.)* Line-edit all Washington Briefing stories, along with feature articles, columns, and other editorial sections. Strategize with writers and fellow editors on how to shape coverage over time.* Write features and website content ranging from 700-word analysis pieces to 4,000-word enterprise features on topics such as elections and legislative issues.* Manage freelance contributor network payment schedule, in coordination with accounting and other editors, staying within the weekly budget.Senior Editor, May 2017 – August 2022* Conceived and executed daily political coverage, managing five reporters – three focusing on Congress, one covering 2022 midterm campaigns, and another on general assignment stories.• Planned both deadline and longer-term coverage of the 2020 presidential campaign. Reoriented a pre-COVID-19 plan that had been focused on field reporting, to largely remote-work journalism, finding original angles on the presidential race, Senate, House, gubernatorial and additional contests. • Previously edited early morning newsletter, “Daily on Defense” — planning and refining coverage of the military and foreign policy.
