John Snyder Email & Phone Number

Westwood, Nj

AWARD-WINNING EDITOR for two hyper-local weekly newspapers—we cover municipal and school news and general features—for 24 towns, connecting with folks from all walks of life. We ship to more than 32,000 homes and businesses in the affluent suburban Pascack Valley and Northern Valley areas of Bergen County. Winner of the 2021 Certificate of Excellence in Grassroots Reporting from the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Boston—New York—The Web

CLIENTS SAID I HIT home runs in partnering on their writing projects, which included ghostwritten articles in Advertising Age, a memoir, a comic-book-based nutrition guide, a C-suite risk management resource, web copy for an independent academic medical center, and admissions outreach for a top-tier New England boarding school.

Shelburne Falls, Ma

I ADVISED HIGH-ACHIEVING elementary school students in the production of a community newspaper, The Flow. This was a real-world, year-round, independent newspaper, a 12-page color broadsheet the students used as a platform for the study and practice of journalism. The kids, in grades 4–6, were our reporters, photographers, columnists, and editors. This newspaper was not limited to the school or to school news; it was a new and exciting school community newspaper that sought to inform and empower all readers who call this area home. It also gave our participants priceless experience in leadership, risk taking, collaboration, and other work values—and got them started curating their own impressive portfolio of clips.We also explored newspaper production, translating page dummies to the screen and using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.The Flow was a proud member of the Journalism Education Association, the National Elementary Schools Press Association, the New England Scholastic Press Association, and the Greater Shelburne Falls (Mass.) Area Business Association.

Brattleboro, Vt.

THE COMMONS, Commonsnews.org, and the Media Mentoring Project are projects of Vermont Independent Media, a nonprofit source of news and media education in southern Vermont. I copyedit news and features and enjoy working with staff writers and stringers to draw out the very best in the stories they're telling readers.

CITY HALL BEAT WRITER. Researched and wrote hundreds of news, feature and brief articles crisply and on deadline. Covered official meetings and forged productive relationships with sources, civic leaders, citizens, and general readers.

Oakland, Ca

AS NEWS EDITOR for the leading Web portal on business and environmental sustainability I reported, wrote, edited, and posted hundreds of items to our news and features feeds; edited columns commissioned from experts in the field; negotiated content-sharing agreements with eight editorial affiliates; helped populate the site's tools, reviews, careers, bookstore, and events sections; edited and distributed a weekly e-zine; and built out content for industry-specific client sites.

Walnut Creek, Ca

EDITED AND PAGINATED the real estate and automotive sections of five weekly community newspapers, hired columnists, and wrote advertorial copy for special sections.

Pleasanton, Ca

Bs, Ba, Mass Communication/Media Studies

Bachelor Of Science; Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism; Communication