Laura Robida Email & Phone Number

Madison, Connecticut, United States

Madison, Connecticut, United States

Madison, Ct

Responsible for the development and ongoing maintenance of the company's primary website, www.zip06.com, as well as affiliated sites including, but not limited to, www.beaconawardsct.com, www.branfordrestaurantweek.com, and www.shorepublishing.com. Additional responsibilities include monthly, quarterly, and yearly traffic analytics reports, writing and publishing breaking news, editing and preparing all content for publication online, editing video, and assembling photo galleries. I oversee all aspects of the company's social media, and I serve as the sole front-end developer for Shore Publishing.

Madison, Connecticut

Responsible for organizing, assigning, and editing all content for publication in this quarterly lifestyle magazine published on the Connecticut shoreline. elan is a direct-mailed magazine sent to upscale homes and subscribers and is available at more than 50 drop locations.

Westbrook, Connecticut, United States

• Designed, coded, and installed a responsive WordPress theme for non-profit organization.• Performs weekly backups and updates as necessary

Madison, Ct

Responsible for writing and publishing breaking news to Shore Publishing's website, www.zip06.com, creating and publishing photo galleries, and editing and publishing all content for online publication. Implemented light HTML and CSS edits to site code as needed.

Madison, Ct

Responsible for writing and editing a weekly events calendar and community submitted announcements. Prepared all content for publishing to www.zip06.com.

New Haven, Ct

• Promoted to Senior News Editor from Editor after three months.• Oversaw the production of eight weekly community newspapers.• Developed and wrote a bi-weekly column in addition to weekly 1,000+ word cover features for both the news and living sections for an arts-based broadsheet.• Managed and organized production of a weekly arts-based broadsheet.• Performed layout for a two weekly tabloid style community newspapers and one weekly broadsheet newspaper in Adobe InDesign,• Copy edited all copy for three weekly publications.• Assigned, selected, and edited all photographs and artwork for three weekly newspapers• Directly guided a staff of four writers, six freelance writers, two editors, and two associate editors. Reported directly to the managing executive editor.• Acted as online content manager for three weekly publications' websites.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Promoted from staff reporter to editor after six months.• Assigned and edited all content for two weekly community newspapers.• Immediately managed a staff of two writers, one photographer, one associate editor, and two freelance writers.• Acted as online content manager for the websites of two weekly newspapers.• Performed layout for two weekly tabloid style community newspapers in Quark Xpress and, later, Adobe InDesign.• Assisted in the transition from Quark Xpress to Adobe InDesign, and Microsoft Word to Adobe InCopy.

Old Saybrook, Connecticut, United States

• Research, interviewed sources, and wrote seven to eight stories weekly of varying lengths and topics for twice-weekly deadlines. • Took photos on an as-needed basis.