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Greater Boston Area

● Prepare both staff and wire copy for publication on all Boston Globe platforms, including BostonGlobe.com, printed newspaper, social media, and newsletters.● Edit stories for content, accuracy, clarity, and grammar, adding compelling headlines (SEO, meta, and others) and multimedia to best highlight Globe’s market-leading coverage.● Monitor for and write breaking news, as well as localize coverage to regional audience.● Adapted as Globe expanded digital presence, regularly serving as night copy desk’s web point person, as well as slot editor, rim editor, swing editor, and print designer as needed.● Curate BostonGlobe.com and Globe’s social media with SocialFlow and other tools.

Greater Boston Area

● Write 2-3 Red Sox analysis pieces weekly for Boston.com, generally at the beginning and ends of series. Articles frequently are built around identifying trends, highlighting specific players or themes, or offering historical context to recent events.● Totaled approximately 975,000 pageviews in 12 months ending Oct. 31, with nearly 790,000 unique visitors and more than 500,000 engaged minutes across 278 articles.

Greater Boston Area

● Write independently and curate from wire services sports stories with significant interest in the Boston/Manchester DMA. Use SEO best practices to boost said content via pertinent headlines, writing, keywords, video and URLs, as well as via Facebook and Twitter.● Track web traffic via Chartbeat to best present content on both Boston.com/sports and Boston.com proper.● Edit and best present staff copy as required, as well as brainstorm story ideas.

Milton, Massachusetts

● Using Adobe InDesign, produce quarterly magazines — New England Lacrosse Journal, New England Baseball Journal, New England Basketball Journal, and New England Golf Journal (2022-24) — focused on regional coverage of high school, prep, and college sports.● Coordinate with editors, writers, and advertising staff to best present content in print.

New Bedford, Ma

● Covered 30-40 live games annually from 2004-2010, plus postseason and Spring Training coverage, as well as regular reporting/columns.● Created and developed “Better Red Than Dead” Red Sox blog, as well as Twitter account named one of “75 Best Follows in Boston Sports” in 2015.● Made semi-regular appearances on various sports radio stations nationwide, as well as periodic appearances on regional television.● From 2014-2018, wrote all-topic sports columns and contributed to Red Sox event coverage (season previews, playoffs, etc.) as a freelancer.

New Bedford, Ma

● Led staff of four full-timers and 4-6 part-timers in day-to-day planning and production at small daily newspaper. Made coverage decisions and organized staff workloads, both with and in absence of Sports Editor.● Edited and laid out all local and wire copy for style/grammar.● Wrote both breaking news and local features, including non-sports work, as well as maintained section’s local calendar of events.

New Bedford, Ma

New Bedford, Ma

Boston, Ma

● Responsible for all aspects of Sunday section production both in print and online, including communication with writers, managing copy desk workflow, breaking news and designing section’s iconic front page.

Greater Boston Area

● One of 12 responsible for nightly production — page layout, editing for style/grammar, fact checking — of award-winning sports section. Served regular shifts as lead night desk editor, in charge of all aspects of production of that night’s section both in print and online.● Regularly contributed high-detail statistical work and analysis, both text and graphic, to enhance presentation, either independently or by request of editors.● Managed all agate (box scores, etc.) two shifts per week, plus regularly introduced new features not readily available on wire services — expanded Red Sox statistics, NASCAR standings, preview glances, historical reflections, relevant team schedules — into paper’s coverage.

Boston, Ma

— Taught Feature Writing (COM JO309) to group of 14 upperclassmen in College of Communication, including non-journalism majors. Responsible for creating curriculum and all operations of class. Focused on increasing clarity of writing and depth of reporting, holding students to real-world newsroom standards.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), News/Editorial Journalism

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