Katie Bourque Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Digital duties:•Write, edit and publish breaking news articles for a Top Ten Market audience. •Produce video optimized for Youtube, our website, and other social platforms. •Craft original posts on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Facebook, then track and analyze their performanceAssignment desk duties:•As solo Weekend Assignment Desk Editor: -Find events for our photographers to cover, and arrange a “Talk Back” every Saturday. For this, I find a community event or group of interest to our market, coordinate a live interview with our in-studio anchor, and send a photographer to shoot their location to shoot it. -I find breaking news events and make the final call on where to send our day-side photographers to shoot. -Assign reporters to photographers and I am the person to call to sort out something that goes wrong. -I work with producers to determine reporters stories, which may include doing the legwork of tracking down interview subjects, arranging times to meet, and getting official statements from government officials. -I communicate with sources within law enforcement, local and federal government, emergency medical services and private companies to verify information. -I communicate with our chopper pilot and other stations to get air coverage of breaking events -I update iNews with show rundown information for reporters packages and VSOTs from photographers -I work with NTCR and producers to create a live shot sheet for reporters, with their RX and IFB information.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

●Reached over 110,000 active readers by writing Sunday's Your Health newsletters, engaging writing about topical health issues and promoting recent content.●Edited content by staff writers and freelance contributors for accuracy, flow, and tone guided by AP style and SEO best practices.●Wrote health, wellness and patient advice stories for U.S. News Health that is syndicated through portals like Yahoo! News and WTOP.●As the team lead for newsletters, I worked with my colleagues to create the U.S. News 7-Day Guide to Healthy Eating, a limited-run newsletter with original content that links to our published work on nutrition and diets. As of November 2022, the newsletter has reached over 40,000 organic readers.● Additionally, I developed, wrote and designed the U.S. News Guide to Medicare 3-day email newsletter course and the 5-week Guide to Fitness email newsletter course.●Created quarterly Google Analytic reports tracking our traffic, user behavior, user acquisition and more.

Greater New York City Area

●Pitched and wrote 2–3 daily posts, including news stories, galleries, explainers, recipes, e-commerce content, and food/health content which have driven over 2 million total unique views.●Selected e-commerce products to be featured in gift guides and produced stories, and tracked their sales and comission after publication.●Analyzed Google Analytics, SEMrush, and Keywords Everywhere to optimize keywords for SEO.●Curated and scheduled Pinterest posts daily based on top-performing pieces. Analyzed trends and top-performing Good Housekeeping content to create a long-term platform strategy.

Wrote 3 e-commerce or news articles about food, wellness, and nutrition per week.

Greater Philadelphia Area

●Pitched, researched and wrote solutions-based journalism stories about the social and economic problems facing Philadelphia.●Helped organize and run events held by The Citizen.

Greater New York City Area

●Pitched and wrote stories for the print magazine and website based on peer-reviewed academic research.●Promoted magazine content by creating original posts and stories for the magazine’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.●Edited blog posts by psychologists, doctors, and other industry experts.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Pitched and wrote stories for the Features Section of the Temple News.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Pitched and wrote stories for the Real Estate section. Other duties included conducting interviews, fact-checking, and transcribing.