Lead service branch coverage, to include guiding and assigning coverage, as well as editing and writing articles and newsletters.Serve as events liaison, helping events staff to choose topics and select, invite and book speakers for all Defense One events.Post content online and manage the home page.Manage and create posts for all of Defense One's social media accounts.

Reporting and research for military-related investigative journalism project.

*Copy edited and posted daily news email on the magazine’s website.*Wrote monthly column and occasional feature-length articles for the magazine.*Organized and executed reporting trips to Air Force bases overseas, including trips to Al Udeid, Qatar, and Al Dhafra, UAE. *Copy edited magazine articles.

Covered Congress, the White House, space, cyber and personnel issues for Air Force Magazine and the online Daily Report.

*Wrote breaking, daily and enterprise stories about the Department of Defense, military operations, troops and veterans.*Embedded with Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province, Afghanistan to cover the beginning of the last deployment by a major Marine unit to Afghanistan. *Covered the trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan and the investigation of Cpl. Ivan Lopez’s shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas.

*Traveled to Afghanistan, Vietnam, India, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Spain, Portugal, Italy and England with then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to cover international security summits, bilateral security meetings and the first visit by a U.S. defense secretary to Cam Ranh Bay since the end of the Vietnam War. *Through reporting, became expert on the issue of military sexual assault and the efforts by members of Congress and top military leaders to help prevent and respond to sex crimes in the ranks. Appeared as a guest on several radio and online programs to discuss the issue, including NPR’s “Tell Me More” and BBC World Service Newsday. Read transcript or listen to NPR appearance here: https://www.vpr.org/post/fighting-sexual-assault-seen-military-betrayal#stream/0

*Wrote daily politics stories for women’s fashion and lifestyle website during the 2012 election season.

*Wrote press releases, speeches, talking points, op-eds and media advisories.*Organized and staffed public events.*Staffed and helped facilitate interviews with CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Washington Post and other outlets.

*Covered 2010 session of the Maryland General Assembly for student-staffed wire service.*Covered environment and agriculture beat and created multimedia content for Chesapeake Bay beta page.*Stories published in newspapers and on websites nationwide.

Worked part-time at AJR, writing and fact-checking articles, while in the graduate program at University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

*Produced award-winning “Mission in Afghanistan” section, which included news stories, photo galleries, video and a blog during a two-week trip to Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan as embedded reporter with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. *Helped produce and guide online and print coverage of the investigation into the death of Maria Lauterbach, a pregnant Marine found buried in the backyard of a fellow Marine. Appeared on “Larry King Live” and other national television news programs to discuss developments in the story. *Wrote three-part series on post-traumatic stress disorder and its effects on Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.*Built database of fallen service members to accompany series for 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq.

*Produced a two-hour morning show, trained new producers and regularly filled in as a producer for other newscasts. *As web producer: wrote, reported and edited stories for the website, edited and uploaded video of stories, newscasts and breaking news, and created an online video news update.

*Wrote, photographed, designed and edited Carolina Living section.*Produced and edited Sports section in absence of sports editor.

*Covered the University of Georgia and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.*Covered the split of the University of Georgia from the University of Georgia Foundation, which managed the university’s endowment.*Used databases to write investigative stories, including one about the amount of money donated by highly vocal members of the University of Georgia Foundation. *Covered multiple lawsuits against the university, including one initiated by a former cheerleading coach accused of discrimination.

*Covered K-12 and higher education in Beaufort and Jasper counties, as well as military news. *Covered rapid growth of the small coastal town of Bluffton, S.C.