Lisa Hix Email & Phone Number

My writing has appeared in Glamour, Teen Vogue, Yahoo! News, KTVU.com, Jezebel, Bust, Intersection, Bitch Media, Ms. Magazine, Gizmodo, Mental Floss, The Mini International, Venus Zine, The SFist, D.I.W., Swingset, West Coast Performer, The Smithsonian, Zócalo Public Square, The Houston Chronicle

San Francisco, California, United States

• Copy edited all stories, from breaking news and investigative pieces to features and opinion columns. Checked facts, read for AP Style and corrected spelling, grammar and syntax.• Updated the company's style guide, creating guidelines specific to San Francisco and California. Developed best practices for topics such as the Israel-Hamas war and violence against women, as well as coverage involving race, gender, homelessness and disability.• Put on presentations about common errors at staff meetings. Created personalized style sheets and held grammar consultations for individual reporters and their editors.• Optimized headlines for SEO. Wrote captions and social media display text. Participated in daily meetings to tweak headlines to increase page views.• Edited in Google Docs, WordPress, Datawrapper, MailChimp, Shorthand and more.• Served on the editorial leadership team, the style committee, the crime coverage committee and the committee on employing AI and other new technology.• Worked as a breaking news editor, and a breaking news reporter, on odd weekend shifts.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Reconceptualized and expanded the Art & Entertainment section of Bay City News Foundations's nonprofit Local News Matters to spotlight work by artists in marginalized communities and creative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.• Relaunched the Remember When history section with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind.• Managed four features sections total, including Bay City Books and Inspire Me, which focuses on uplifting human-interest pieces.• Received four San Francisco Press Club awards in 2021 for work I edited.• Recruited and managed a team of freelancers to write for these sections.• Wrote and edited Local News Matters' weekly news and arts & culture newsletters.• Edited, copy edited, photo edited and designed articles in WordPress and wrote captions, headlines and display type.

• Reported, wrote and edited breaking news for hundreds of clients of the Bay City News wire service.

San Francisco, Ca

• Helped create and shape the editorial vision for an online magazine that put the history of objects into social, cultural and political contexts.• Wrote buzz-generating longform articles on everything from hula dolls and vigilante masks to ugly couches and the death of T.G.I. Friday's flair, the latter of which made Bloomberg Businessweek's 2016 Jealousy List and Eater's Best Longform Food Stories of 2016.• Was linked on and praised by The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.• Edited and wrote articles that regularly garnered 10,000+ UPVs. The No. 1 story approached 2 million UPVs, while the top 10 are all over 100,000 UPVs.• Performed content editing, copy editing, web layout and photo editing. Managed freelancers.• Managed social media. Brought Facebook followers from 1,000 to nearly 50,000.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Proofread direct-marketing emails for Apple Inc. on an as-needed basis. • Proofread promotional blogs, help-wanted ads, white papers and presentations for other companies like California Bank & Trust and Traction itself.

San Francisco

• Wrote previews, interviews, articles and reviews about the creative culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Managed the live Yahoo front page, posting and taking down article teasers hourly to keep the Featured module fresh and up-to-date.• Wrote and produced teaser packages on breaking news, politics, celebrity, entertainment, fashion, lifestyles, finance and science that drove millions of clicks.

• Created and wrote the Clubland column to explore the scenes at underground events and offbeat parties, which were not previously covered by the newspaper.• Wrote features, often section fronts, about trends, music and women's issues for the Datebook, Style and Home & Garden sections.• Did interviews, edited sound clips and hosted podcasts on the Bay Area music scene.

• Served as the Sunday copy chief, managing the output of a daily entertainment section and signing off on all final copy and display type.• Worked closely with the editor to oversee the production of the Sunday Style section.• Copy edited arts and entertainment, books, food, travel, lifestyles and home and garden copy and worked with writers on changes.• Wrote headlines, teasers, decks and captions, including an award-winning headline.• Designed pages on the pagination system.

Greater New York City Area

• Read hundreds of 100-word essays, narrowed down contestant pools and discussed final winners with top editors and hotel promotions staff.• Gave winners instructions on blogging and snapping photographs while traveling to Paris, Shanghai, Monaco, Vienna and Miami.• Edited content, worked with winners on rewrites, wrote headlines and display type. Selected photos.

• Curated the content of a weekly email newsletter that recommended the best cultural events in the San Francisco Bay Area to 28,000-plus subscribers.• Edited, copy edited and wrote 100-word items on music, DJs, art, comedy, theater, dance and fashion.• Managed a mostly volunteer staff. Coordinated with producers in New York City online.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Researched and rewrote descriptive chapters on eight San Francisco neighborhoods for the 2009 edition. Also researched and rewrote listings chapters on nightlife, festivals, galleries, shopping and hotels.

• Wrote about the life of a San Francisco high school student, through her freshman year and most of her sophomore year. Followed her during events such as her first day of high school, a state cross-country meet, and preparations for her first formal, and reported in a monthly series. * Worked on other features for the magazine.

• Wrote general assignment stories and features to flesh out issues throughout the week.• Covered the police and city beats for Saturday and Sunday issues.• Proofread Sunday pages.