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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Journalist covering the business of airlines for a travel-savvy consumer audience.• Interview top-level executives, conduct in-depth trend analyses and break news on developments across air travel and aerospace sectors.• Top stories include interviews with airline CEOs conducted mid-flight, daily coverage of two antitrust trials and a piece on in-flight hamburgers.• Regularly appear on national and local television and radio outlets including CNN, NPR, NBC, and The Weather Channel.

Greater New York City Area

• Lead reporter for airlines and aerospace industries, including enterprise and consumer stories.• Covered breaking news, features, trends, analysis, executive interviews and service pieces, including extensive coverage of Boeing 737 Max saga, including interviews with affected families, and the impact of COVID-19 on airlines and aerospace.

Greater New York City Area

• Reported on topics surrounding loyalty rewards, particularly credit card points and frequent flyermiles, along with airlines, hotels, online travel agencies and broad travel trends.• Service-oriented coverage including pieces on using rewards currencies and dealing with delays.

Greater New York City Area

Freelance writer focusing on travel, frequent flyer programs, and aviation. Contributor at Business Insider, Upgraded Points, The Points Guy, and other outlets. Blogged at TheCityMiler.com.

Greater New York City Area

• Develop and execute media relations strategy to promote efforts of healthcare clients.

Greater New York City Area

Functioned as "internal journalist" at multi-campus health system:• Developed and maintained relationships with doctors, key clinicians and administrators, and other “sources” to find newsworthy and promotable cases, stories, and events across seven-hospital health system.• Helped provide public information during breaking news events.• Proactively pitched stories to local, national, and trade media, and vetted and filled reactive media requests.• Created and edited multimedia content to be used for media outreach and digital/social promotion, including press releases, pitches, written narratives, photographs, and video recordings.

Greater New York City Area

New York City, Long Island (Ny)

Emergency response as part of the New York City 911 system, inter-facility transports, hospital discharges of non-ambulatory patients. In addition, I served as an EMT with volunteer fire departments on Long Island from 2006-2015, as well as functioning as a firefighter and rescue technician.

Master Of Science (Msc), History

Postgraduate history student in the Taught MSc program. Research interests include Anglo-American social relations during World War Two.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Media And Communication