Jacob May Email & Phone Number

Remote

Proofreads, revises, and fact-checks scientific and technical reporting that's suited for a specialized and general audience. Functions as part of a team to provide editing support throughout the day. • Works efficiently and carefully with critical and hands-on attention to accuracy and style regarding complex topics and reporting.• Assists with identifying, formatting, and publishing syndicated stories to supplement Ars Technica’s reporting.

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Oversees articles on topics related to a range of tech products and services, explainers on general aspects of technology, and more from a freelance network. • Optimizes articles for SEO-related purposes, maintains editorial style, and drives reader engagement by ensuring each story has an approachable headline. • Checks facts with a critical eye for errors and out-of-date information and helps break down complex processes or descriptions of technology.

Remote

Edited and fact-checked news, features, and reviews on topics related to the high-tech consumer industry.

Remote

Contributed to the Reviews/Advice copy desk with daily editing of consumer tech news, reviews, deals, evergreen, and how-to stories. Hired on a three-month contract to assist the desk with Black Friday/Cyber Monday, winter holidays, and CES. • Ensures a high level of quality, including the timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and overall shape of the content.

Portland, Oregon Area

Edited and fact-checked between 15 and 20 news, features, reviews, commerce, and evergreen stories a day on a wide variety of topics related to the high-tech consumer industry. • Offered constructive feedback to freelance writers daily to help them maintain a more fluid and succinct writing style.

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Provided in-depth, accurate proofreading for several hundred pages of news stories, photos, and features compiled into a legacy anthology for professional athletes.• Championed the highest editorial standard possible to preserve a lasting overview of the client’s athletic career through highlights in the media.• Utilized time management skills to produce high volumes of valuable, edited content within tight time constraints.

Capitola, California

Facilitated the completion of high volumes of cases by providing timely and complete assistance to private investigators throughout the West Coast.• Fostered and maintained positive, long-term professional relationships with subcontractors, vendors, and clients through the use of interpersonal and communication skills.• Gathered and organized huge quantities of case materials, updates, and reports submitted by investigators.• Applied gathered information to the creation of concise, accurate summaries of each case for clients.

Santa Cruz, California

Designed engaging daily news and sports sections, utilizing expert time-management skills to ensure that all deadlines were met.• Leveraged prior experience and training to ensure that all content and headlines were well-edited and ready for publication.• Drove customer engagement and new reader development by creating engaging content on multiple social media sites for the paper.

Remote

Gathered all necessary information through research and investigation to develop grant requests for a number of high-profile national organizations.• Gained hands-on experience writing for sensitive and hot-button topics including affordable healthcare, clean energy, and LGBT policies.

Flagstaff, Arizona

Delivered entertaining, accurate sports coverage across northern Arizona.• Spearheaded the exposure of a university cover-up concerning the men’s basketball coach through the utilization of a protected source and public records request.• Provided coverage for a Division I university, the Arizona Cardinals training camp, Olympic distance runners, four high schools, and various community sports.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Covered nearly every sport on campus at least once, most notably as the beat writer for the football, men's basketball and men's track teams• Wrote previews, recaps, features, columns, enterprise stories and maintained a blog. As editor, managed all the section's content and was responsible for the production of the weekly football supplement during the fall.