Jackie (Zimmermann) Farrar Email & Phone Number

-- Manage a team of one to four direct reports who edit and write across different financial verticals, including auto, mortgage and small business-- Lead the auto vertical and small business vertical during staff transitions -- Assign and edit weekly health and home & consumer insurance coverage -- Edit third party personal finance content

Continue previous responsibilities while also:-- Providing editorial support across verticals

Greater New York City Area

-- Manage relationships with 80+ freelance writers and editors (assignments, payments, contracts)-- Recruit and hire for special projects and vertical gaps-- Adapt to quickly changing company needs and priorities-- Manage freelancer audits and freelancer surveys to make sure we're matching the best talent with the right editors and providing an enriching work experience for our freelancers-- Edit personal finance content for third party partners

-- Write engaging, actionable personal finance articles -- Analyze article performance using tools like Google Analytics, SEMRush and Google Search Console-- Pitch stories to national publications, including USAToday and the Associated Press. -- Brainstorm article optimization strategies

-- Brainstorm issue themes and story ideas for a quarterly feminist literary magazine-- Research and write the regular “Centerfold” feature that highlights five women who embody the issue’s theme-- Edit features and department pieces for the magazine-- Proofread the issue

-- Copy edit and proofread a monthly magazine that reaches more than 20,000 Italian Americans in the Chicago area

-- Pitch and write service-driven articles for money.com and MONEY magazine-- Fact-check and report on magazine feature and department stories-- Search for and interview real people candidates for features and online pieces-- Participate in videos that demonstrate money-saving strategies and debunk millennial money myths-- Administrative duties including calendar management and expense reporting

-- Contribute articles for Philanthropy department of Make it Better, a North Shore lifestyle website and magazine

Evanston, Il

- Assess branding emphases between the 50 sub-brands of Farm Journal Media as part of Medill team project- Present findings to top executives

Chicago

-- Cover the banking and personal finance beat for Medill News Service and Medill Money Mavens (www.medillmoneymavens.com)-- Analyze corporate income statements and economic indicators-- Take photos and create graphs to accompany stories

Holland, Mi

-- Assist with marketing efforts including the creation of a local TV commercial, updating the website and social media accounts and brainstorming ideas for client events-- Prepare meeting folders for clients that include detailed reports about their portfolio and fee arrangements-- Take notes during client meetings in order to produce a meeting summary letter

Grand Rapids, Mi

-- Research and write feature and department articles for Grand Rapids Magazine and Grand Rapids Family magazine-- Research and compile a list of over 100 summer camps and write sidebar stories for the 2010 and 2011 camp feature article

Athens, Oh

-- Assist the editor-in-chief with assigning staff positions and stories for the nation’s only student-run regional magazine-- Create a production schedule-- Edit stories and proofs

Athens, Oh

-- Pitch story ideas-- Write two department pieces for the magazine-- Create an online photo slideshow as a supplement to one of the print stories

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Ba, Journalism, Spanish, English

Activities and Societies: Speakeasy Magazine, Southeast Ohio Magazine