Lisa Swan Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

Work as a freelance proofreader and copy editor. On the hunt for new opportunities.

• Published pieces include a Washington Post op-ed defending Alex Rodriguez when few would.
• Work as a writer/ghostwriter for Guideposts, a general-interest magazine with six million readers, and have written multiple cover stories.
• Have also been published in the New York Daily News, ESPN.com, HuffPost, Yahoo! Finance, the Staten Island Advance, Business Insider, Simply Hired, and Business 2 Community.
• Work as an independent writing, editing, blogging, administrative, social media, and internet professional for a variety of websites.

New York, United States

Write a Substack at lisaswan.substack.com about my life as a back-of-the-pack runner in New York City who has finished over 425 road races, including 13 marathons, 37 triathlons, and multiple triathlons.

• Write about the New York Yankees at SubwaySquawkers.com, the nation's most popular Yankees/Mets fan site. The blog originated at the New York Daily News and is now part of TheSportsDaily.com, a USA Today publication.
• Make guest appearances on dozens of radio programs and podcasts squawking about the Yankees, including on ESPN Radio.
• Have been written about in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, NJ.com and Deadspin.

New York, NY

• Started as a part-time proofreading temp at the nation’s second-oldest advertising agency and expanded role into a successful career with multiple responsibilities:
• Proofread, copy-edit, and fact-check advertising and marketing copy for digital, print, out of home, TV, video, social media, and radio creative, as well as web landing pages. Review to make sure all final work.
• Proofread, copy-edit, and fact-check internal documents, RFIs, RFPs, decks, new business presentations, and executive correspondence.
• Experienced in handling dozens of clients, including Con Edison, State Street Global Advisors, CrowdStreet, Blue Foundry Bank, Assured Guaranty, Garanimals, Institute of Management Accountants, National Grid, Military.
• Familiar with various industries’ regulatory requirements.
• Discreetly handle confidential information from current clients, executive correspondence, and new business research.

Brooklyn, NY

• Created SEO/SEM content for multiple clients, which included writing web content and guest columns about pets, business, real estate, finance, careers, life coaching, technology, life insurance, Medicare, health care.
• Managed writing staff, assigned articles, proofread content, and used various content management systems to post articles.

• Assigned tasks in three-person shift for NYDailyNews.com, proofread others' work, and updated home page.
• Wrote Daily News Deja Vu, a weekly column for the newspaper, which took a historical look back at entertainment events; series was one of the feature section's most-read items.
• Worked with paper's staff in writing, assigning and editing original articles for web site.
• Used CMS software to publish newspaper's entertainment, gossip, lifestyle, sports, opinion, news, technology and travel articles on website.
• Created interactive photo galleries, polls, and discussion topics for the web site to increase readers' time spent at site; used SEO techniques to grow traffic.