Judith Riddle Email & Phone Number

• Manage staff and freelance writers• Take a leadership role in forming editorial opinion• Develop story ideas and assign articles• Write monthly editors' columns for magazine and e-newsletter• Edit copy for print and online publications• Copyedit continuing education articles• Collaborate with sales team to create annual editorial calendars• Coordinate special publishing projects• Work closely with production to ensure smooth copy flow and pagination• Communicate with art staff to develop design concepts• Represent publications at trade shows and seminars

Lippincott CME Institute• Managed continuing medical education article reviews for print and online journals and newsletters.• Edited slide kits, abstracts, case studies, grant proposals, and advertising copy for the web. • Wrote needs assessments for live and online continuing medical education activities. LWW VisionCare Group• Assigned articles to freelance writers for print and online publications. • Reported, wrote, and edited news columns and features.• Performed ghost writing for physician editors.• Served as a managing editor for New OD magazine.• Worked with art directors to develop design concepts for articles and supplements.• Managed copy flow and production process.• Collaborated with clients and staff to develop new projects.• Ensured all publication deadlines were met. • Attended industry meetings.

• Researched, reported, and wrote news articles for business-to-business newsletters.

Reported and wrote news and feature stories for Review of Ophthalmology magazine, and attended industry meetings.

• Wrote news and features for Prevention, Essence, Heart & Soul, HealthQuest, and Outpatient Surgery magazines.

Researched and wrote consumer health and medical books for the Prevention Magazine Health Books for Women and The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies for Men brands.Heart & Soul Magazine• Wrote, edited, and assigned feature articles and research projects on women's health and fitness.

• Wrote news and feature stories for Brandweek magazine on business marketing and advertising trends.• Authored several front-page articles, covering the health-and-beauty care and nonprescription drug industries.

• Directed news coverage on food industry trends for Supermarket News.• Edited and wrote feature stories.• Assigned articles to staff reporters and freelance writers.

• Copyedited news and features for sales and marketing management publications.• Wrote headlines and photo captions.• Served as liaison between editorial and production to expedite copy flow.

Master Of Arts, Magazine Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts, Mass Media Communications

Activities and Societies: Photography club, TV news anchor/reporter for University news program, photography Intern, Daily Press.