Emma Bitterman Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

As a strategic communications specialist, I write and edit philanthropic gift acknowledgments, capital campaign communication materials, news announcements centered on significant giving and articles that share the story behind a gift. I create a tailored connections between university and foundation leadership and our donors, helping to demonstrate the impact philanthropic gifts can have on the university community.

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

As editor-in-chief of this small daily newsroom, I led The Transcript to receive the 2022 Sequoyah Award, the highest recognition the Oklahoma Press Association can award a paper in The Transcript's size division. Under my leadership, our newsroom aggressively pursued coverage of a local mother charged with murder (a case that made national headlines and that we detailed in story, editorial and podcast format), held local law enforcement and prosecutors accountable, pushed for answers on a controversial state toll road system and published deeply researched, award-winning opinion and editorial board pieces on a regular basis. I worked hard to build and maintain relationships and trust with local readers, and to improve our subscriber base via reputation.

Norman, Oklahoma

As a reporter I covered education - including the University of Oklahoma and Norman Public Schools - and COVID-19. My 2020 pivot to pandemic reporting led me to uncover a significant virus outbreak at a local Veterans Center and to memorialize several Norman residents lost to COVID-19.

Detroit, Michigan

I worked with the Freep Now team to cover breaking and trending stories relevant to Detroit and Michigan, bringing 3.6 million page views to the Free Press' site over four months with the team.

Norman, Oklahoma

As The Daily's spring 2019 EIC, I managed a newsroom of over 50 people, a weekly print publication and a 24/7 digital operation, and led The Daily’s the most successful spring semester ever in terms of unique visitors and page views. During a semester when OU made national headlines multiple times, I led reporting on university/state investigations of sexual harassment allegations against a former OU president, a headed coverage of campus-wide demonstrations when racist videos involving OU drew attention from across the country.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I worked as one of three reporters with Gaylord News, a Washington D.C.-based reporting program out of the University of Oklahoma. The program allowed us to cover Oklahoma politics and the state's congressional delegation, then have our work published by Oklahoma news organizations. My stories were published by the Tulsa World, The Oklahoman, and several of the 14 CNHI-owned papers throughout the state such as the Enid News Eagle and the Norman Transcript.

Phoenix, Arizona

As an Ethics and Excellence in Journalism fellow, I worked for eight months with News21, a nationally-recognized investigative reporting program, to report on hate crimes and discrimination across the US. I co-led a team of six journalists to investigate anti-LGBTQ hate, and traveled to Houston, New Orleans and Jacksonville interviewing members of the LGBTQ community for the 3,000-word story my team produced.

Norman, Oklahoma

For a year, I managed a team of reporters and other editors, selected and scheduled news desk content, produced and reported on daily/breaking news and long-form pieces and collaborated with our editorial board to manage day-to-day content production, projects and coverage. I also oversaw coverage of OU's months-long presidential search and broke the news of the search's selection on a statewide level.

Greater Atlanta Area

As a summer intern with AT&T's Business to Business (B2B) Sales Program, I completed projects to standardize department training for multiple managers, created a department-wide newsletter, modernized intra-team communication and created and delivered professional, branded presentations.

Reported to editor in chief and news managing editor to manage the news desk. Worked with other news editors to edit and write daily stories, bigger projects and breaking news. Wrote and reported a large, multimedia enterprise project.

I worked with reporters to edit daily content, covered breaking news and events, collaborated with other editors to edit, plan and write projects and stories. I also wrote and reported The Daily's first extensive multimedia enterprise project, "Waiting Game," which focused on OU's lack of mental health resources for students.

I reported and wrote two stories/week, covering the Daily's first mental health beat. I covered breaking news (like protests) and daily events.

Georgia

In this summer job, I handled the studio's front desk interactions and transactions, studio opening and closing and daily studio resetting.