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Report on the public relations and communications industry with a specific focus on agencies, healthcare and overall comms. Write daily articles, long form, analysis stories and create video, podcast and visual content as needed. Contribute research and features to print magazine content and annual reports. Lead editorial on Gen-Z weekly contributing column. Organize submissions, edit text and schedule content and social copy weekly. Host conferences, moderate panels and… Show more Report on the public relations and communications industry with a specific focus on agencies, healthcare and overall comms. Write daily articles, long form, analysis stories and create video, podcast and visual content as needed. Contribute research and features to print magazine content and annual reports. Lead editorial on Gen-Z weekly contributing column. Organize submissions, edit text and schedule content and social copy weekly. Host conferences, moderate panels and fireside chat discussions with industry professionals at events for the PRWeek brand. Show less

Track and update College, Nursing Home and General Clusters of COVID-19 positive cases across the country and Vaccine Eligibility by state. Collect and organize data on coronavirus-related coverage such as the Crisis within Public Health, survey companies on Worker Vaccine Requirements & analyze thousands of obituaries of over One Million Lives Lost. Write and report on At-Home Test Kit's Shelf Lives and Extensions.Part of a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the… Show more Track and update College, Nursing Home and General Clusters of COVID-19 positive cases across the country and Vaccine Eligibility by state. Collect and organize data on coronavirus-related coverage such as the Crisis within Public Health, survey companies on Worker Vaccine Requirements & analyze thousands of obituaries of over One Million Lives Lost. Write and report on At-Home Test Kit's Shelf Lives and Extensions.Part of a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the 2020 Philip Meyer Journalism award, a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award and a 2021 Online Journalism Award for general excellence.Assist the science desk with research, translating, updating and mapping the global vaccine tracker and variant tracker.Track, verify and report on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Utilize photos, videos, government sources and translation tools to identify locations of Civilian Targeted Attacks across Ukraine and the Use of Illegal Weapons by Russians. The team's work was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Show less

Build and structure student-run political coverage website via Squarespace on the 2020 election season. Organize sections with interactive scroll, tabs, images and maps. Interview local clerks and voting advocates for digital piece covering adjustments to voting practices due to quarantine measures during the start of the pandemic.

Curate, write and produce a series of stories on gender roles in Costa Rica after traveling to the country and living with a host family. Interview women employed in a diversity of roles utilizing a translator and collect various forms of multimedia for the website.

Supervise the creation of writer’s content for the online food and lifestyle national blog. Copyedit articles as they come in while promoting the use of online skills such as embed code, hyperlinking and SEO. Conduct meetings and workshops monthly.

Create story ideas to write for the online platform. Execute with visuals and digital content.

Manage, budget and run the four pages of the news section for the university official student-run weekly newspaper. Copyedit and guide section writers consistently throughout the reporting process. Layout articles in InDesign on deadline and assist in copyediting for various other sections.

Hamden, Connecticut

Assist News Editor in managing the news section by writing weekly as well as managing section writers.

Write weekly for various sections of the paper.

Pitch and write articles discussing college life for the online blog with topic approval from an executive board.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Chronicle newspaper, Spoon University blog, Alpha Delta Pi sorority, 3+1 accelerated degree program

Master Of Science - Ms, Interactive Communications And Media