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New York, NY, US

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Ideates, assigns, edits, and produces content for adtech company’s owned and operated website focused on entertainment news coverage.
• Focused on creating search-driven content, using SEO tools such as SEMrush, ahRefs, and Google Trends, for keyword research.
• Produced site’s first Style Guide to establish a more consistent and efficient workflow.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversees editorial direction and content strategy for Bonnie Fuller's HollywoodLife.com (25M+ monthly UVs)
• Assigns, edits, and fact-checks over 50 daily features from a cross-country team of over 25 content creators working in editorial, e-commerce, social, and video, often on a tight deadline.
• Strategizes coverage using editorial analytics tools, like Google Analytics and SEMRush; monitors traffic and performance to understand what’s working to help inform areas of growth.
• Upholds brand consistency in voice and copy standards across several verticals: breaking news, entertainment, fashion, world events and lifestyle service, which includes travel, fitness, food and family content.
• Developed Style Guides and procedures for new editorial and SEO initiatives.
• Maintains the editorial calendar.

Beverly Hills, California, United States

• Managed all day-to-day editorial operations for the front page of PerezHilton.com, as well as 4 auxiliary sites focused on lifestyle (including travel & fitness), fashion, families, and pets.
• Supported team of editors and department leads in creating high-value (and high quality) content.
• Maintained the editorial calendar, while writing, assigning and top-editing over 50 features daily.
• Developed new site Style Guides, which established editorial protocol for coverage of breaking news and tentpole events like the Met Gala and Oscars.
• Conducted interviews over the phone, on video calls, and in-person at events and junkets, like Comic-Con and Paleyfest.
• Oversaw the hiring and training of a team of over 20 writers and editors. Led workshops on style, content strategy and search engine optimization (SEO).

Beverly Hills, California, United States

• Acted as newsroom manager by assigning breaking news stories, galleries and evergreen features for the front page of PerezHilton.com
• Partnered with creative teams (art, photo, social, video) to package and optimize digital content to make it both successful and fun to read
• Supervised social media coverage on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Wrote or updated 8-12 stories a week across many verticals, including entertainment, travel, fashion/beauty, health, home, and more
• Conducted interviews with high-profile stars like Saoirse Ronan, Justin Bieber, and Lea Michele.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Wrote or updated 8-10 stories a day across many verticals, including entertainment, travel, fashion/beauty, health, food, pets and more.
• Responsible for self-publishing all of my work, including breaking news and long-form interviews
• Worked evenings and weekends, as needed, for essential editorial coverage, including holidays, award show season, and special events, like Olympics and Met Gala

Coordinating weekly audience logistics of advance ticket distribution, audience traffic in/out of the building, in/out of the set, and seating arrangements, as well as outreach to viewers.

Ba, Communication And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Emerson Independent Video, EIV Music Videos, The Daily Grind, The Kevin Bright Project (Browne at Midnight).

High School Diploma, Design And Visual Communications, General

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society