Emily Babay Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Greater Philadelphia Area

Editor on the Inquirer's Team Now, a GA team that covers whatever Philadelphians are talking about today: Breaking news, big events, trending talkers, and anything else.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Editor on a digitally focused news team that handles breaking news, live coverage, major events and viral stories, and coordinator for coverage of stories and projects that involve teams from across the newsroom.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Report and write several stories stories daily on breaking news covering all topics. Write daily morning headlines newsletter. Write SEO headlines; add art, related links and other elements to stories. Take photos and assist with web production as needed.

Managed story placement on homepage. Ran local news social media accounts. Created content that included photo galleries, Storify posts and document databases. Produced iPad app and email newsletters. Compiled related links, photos, videos and documents for article pages.

Reported on crime and courts (state and federal) in Maryland and Virginia. Wrote breaking news and enterprise stories. Filed multiple stories daily. Live tweeted from events. Placed in-text links in articles.

Wrote headlines, summaries and compiled links to develop packages for homepage. Created slideshows. Selected video clips. Helped plan daily news budget for site. Developed social-media efforts. Moderated comments.

Wrote and edited posts for a watchdog blog for the 2010 Census.

Produced, edited and trained staff to create interactive features, audio, videos, slideshows and other multimedia. Manage dsocial-media efforts. Wrote search-engine-optimized headlines. Helped oversee new website design

Assigned and edited all stories for beats that included politics, crime and higher education. Wrote headlines. Coordinated 2008 elections coverage, including elections blog and live online coverage at Philadelphia campaign events.

Covered crime and legal affairs and wrote up to six stories a week. Learned that people affiliated with Penn commit (or are accused of committing) crimes on a fairly regular basis. Became way too obsessed with the Penn Police crime log, PACER and court documents generally.

Wrote for features and news sections, including profiles, trend pieces, spot news and event coverage.

Covered the 5 a.m. police shift and managed early-morning updates on website. Was only reporter on duty until 8 a.m. Also wrote enterprise and general-assignment pieces. Edited audio.

Primarily covered business and education.