Columnist/Editor
Duties included:• Serving as the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's lead metro columnist, responsible for attracting readers with compelling and insightful commentary.• Making frequent TV and radio appearances on the newspaper’s behalf. • Boosting content awareness via social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. • Supervising staff and assigning and editing stories as weekend metro editor.• Editing copy for the newspaper’s opinion section.• Arranging and conducting interviews with nationally known figures for the newspaper’s opinion section.• Turning conceptual ideas for complex investigative projects into nuanced, prize-winning reports.• Covering the intricacies of major metropolitan city and county government.Writing awards• 2016: National Society of Newspaper Columnists• 2015: National Society of Newspaper Columnists• 2012: Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association• 2011: National Society of Newspaper Columnists• 2010: Society of Professional Journalists, Keystone Pro Chapter• 2010: Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors• 2009: Society of Professional Journalists, Keystone Pro Chapter• 2008: Press Club of Western Pennsylvania• 2007: Association for Women in Communications• 2007: National Society of Newspaper Columnists• 2006: Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors• 2004: Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors• 2001: National Society of Newspaper Columnists• 2000: Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association
