Jpat Brown Email & Phone Number

• Supports WWW's editorial mission with FOIA/public records requests and document analysis

Greater Boston Area

• Designed and wrote “The Faculty Lounge,” a weekly newsletter for educators of all teaching levels with an international audience of over 160k subscribers • Worked in an AGILE team to grow HBP’s Higher Education editorial brand• Helped establish HBP Higher Ed as a go-to resource for educators dealing with the sudden transition to online learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Turned MuckRock's bi-monthly publishing schedule into three investigative, public records driven articles a day, with weekly readership in the hundreds of thousands • Cemented MuckRock's role as an authority on the Freedom of Information Act and state and local equivalents• Launched ongoing projects exploring CIA and FBI history, which received international press coverage • Grew MuckRock into a fun and accessible brand despite the often dense and difficult subject matter • Wrote and edited articles, ran social media accounts, and oversaw newsletter • Managed a full-time staff of four and dozens of freelance writers • Represented MuckRock at various journalism and transparency conferences, as well as giving paid talks on FOIA and the state of government transparency • Gave presentations about US transparency laws to delegations of international journalists as part of MuckRock’s partnership with WorldBoston

• Consulted on the editorial process for two monthly print magazines covering local news and lifestyle before taking over entire online presence• Managed social media accounts and day-to-day digital publication

• Started out writing listings and ended up running day-to-day editorial operations for a major market alt-weekly with a print circulation of 40k• Oversaw the transition from hemorrhaging money to breaking even to profitable in a period of little over a year• Edited dozens of articles weekly for the print magazine, as well as daily online coverage • Managed a full-time staff of five with dozens of freelance writers, designers, and photographers, including 20+ interns • Represented DigBoston at annual Association of Alternative Newsmedia conferences

Greater Boston Area

I tricked kids into playing educational computer games. I fixed the printer many, many times.