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• Find stories each morning with the potential to trend and present these ideas in a daily brainstorming meeting. Take approved ideas and delegate articles between myself and other writers.• Write, code, build and select photos for each of my pieces. Edit and publish articles I assign.• Conduct telephone, red carpet, and sit down interviews with celebrities, musicians, and subjects of human interest stories.• Serve as a liaison between freelancers and People.com. Decide which stories should be written. Build, format, edit and promote freelancer articles. • Work award shows in a high-pressure, real-time atmosphere. Analyze events for stand out moments to turn into creative and unique takes that will be shareable in the following days.• Brainstorm long-term strategy, design and franchises for PEOPLE.com .• Research and write long-form features and galleries. • 5-7 stories I write or delegate outperform most PEOPLE Facebook posts each week.• Introduced a new genre of content to PEOPLE.com with stories about online trends, memes and oddities that continues to attract new readers to the site.• Increased production of the Pets section from 1 article a day to 6-7 articles a day