Marcus Gilmer Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cleveland, Oh

- Source and write breaking news, focusing on trending news and politics.- Write and assemble longer-form feature stories focusing on digital trends and politics.- Source stories from trending sites like Storyful and CrowdTangle for assignment and writing.- Assist Tech editors with any additional editorial duties as needed.

San Francisco Bay Area/Cleveland, Oh

- Assist in managing and overseeing Mashable's Real Time news team, a staff of 4 writers, 2 interns, and 2 editors, responsible for creating over a dozen stories daily for Mashable on a variety of topics, ranging from Entertainment to Tech to Politics.- Assign, write, and curate a variety of breaking and trending news stories, from science (SpaceX), sports (2016 Olympics) to politics (the 2016 presidential election). - Curate breaking news stories from social media and other tools, including Geofeedia, Storyful, and Dataminr.- Help manage social media accounts, including Twitter and Facebook, for @MashableNews and @Mashable, during breaking events- Work with other editorial leadership staff to coordinate coverage and story selection.- Ensure accuracy and editorial voice for stories across a wide spectrum of topics and to ensure each story is tailored to reach our desired audience and on-brand- Create media – images, videos, and GIFs – to share across social channels for engagement- Monitor native analytic tools for Twitter, Vine, and Facebook as well as Google Analytics and Parsely to measure traffic and engagement.

- Assist in managing and maintaining the Chronicle’s main social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) for both SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com - Monitor social media for breaking news and work with editorial desk to make sure Metro desk is up to date on latest breaking news.- Produce stories, blog posts, and slideshows for SFGate.com.- Train newsroom on social media usage and best practices across multiple platforms and arrange for guests to visit newsroom.- Work with editors and reporters to increase and improve social media presence using tools including Twitter Analytics and Simply Measured.- Creator, writer of daily "Late Edition" news round-up blog post.- Monitor traffic via Jumptime, Chartbeat and Adobe Omniture and use that to boost stories via social.- Manage social media networks during breaking news (Example: the Leland Yee scandal), include building content via ScribbleLive and Storify- Produce live chats using ScribbleLive and Google Hangouts

Greater Chicago Area

- Act as liaison between the digital desk and the newsroom (both reporters and metro editors) including training newsroom staff in use of all digital tools, including blogs and social media.- Manage and monitor social media accounts (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook), using analytics/engagement to help drive traffic, source stories, and determine areas for growth.- Helped increase Twitter followers by 50% and increase Facebook followers (“Likes”) by 54% since Summer 2012.- Manage Voices.Suntimes.com blogs for the Sun-Times, including writing content, editing, photo selection, SEO targeting, and training for usage.- Created and compose The Evening Rush, a nightly email newsletter with a current subscription base of 45,000. - Helped transition the Sun-Times blogs from Movable Type to WordPress platform - Assist with some general web production for the main Sun-Times website- Monitoring traffic via Chartbeat and Adobe Omniture- Production of live events including video, live-Tweet coverage, live chats, and live blogs including: 2012 Presidential election, 2013 Presidential Inauguration, Chicago Blackhawks playoffs, and breaking news.- Manage platforms like YouTube, SoundCloud, ScribbleLive and Storify to build multimedia blog posts

Greater Chicago Area

Writer of daily "Punching Up The News" column

Chicago, Il

- Manage a staff of 14 in coordinating local content for all localized print editions and corresponding websites.- Create content for or assist and direct in content creation for social media accounts for all local pub accounts, including training and general management.- Monitor content online and in print for quality assurance.- Analyze traffic using Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, and Chartbeat to identify areas for growth and lead strategy sessions on sharing content, sharing growth across the entire network, and in individual markets.- Lead expansions to other cities; expanded to four markets, hiring all necessary support staff - Act as liaison between local staff and national staff, finance, ad ops, and tech.- Copy edit and write for all editions as well as The A.V. Club’s national publications- Coordinate any staff meetings, summits, editorial organization, interns, and other communications amongst staff- Double online traffic to The A.V. Club’s local network from 379,000 monthly pageviews to 800,000.

Chicago, Il

- Remotely manage staff of 25+ writers and two associate editors. Duties include assigning, editing, and composing stories for Top 5 site in the Gothamist network- Maintain the site's social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter), selected as "Best Local Twitter Feed" by DePaul's Digital Editing class.- Led site's coverage of 2008 Election, President Obama inauguration, Governor Blagojevich trial, the City's 2016 Olympics bid, and multiple music festivals such as Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Music Fest- Public appearances such as IFC's Media Matters panel with Carl Bernstein, Chicago Tribune Editor Gerald Kern, and Sun-Times Editor Donald Hayner- Raised average monthly site traffic (page views) by 32%- Stories mentioned or linked by: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, The Atlantic, National Review, Chicago Tribune, Politico, Fark, and DailyKos

- Maintained, updated, and edited articles for posting to website - Responsible for proofreading and editing documentation, manuals, and proposals- Composed articles and layout for annual newsletter

- Contracted to provide descriptive content for exclusive concierge services being offered to high end credit cardholders. - Conducted interviews and provided copy for high-end restaurants, spas, and private shopping experiences.- Created ancillary product descriptions such as tour descriptions for major online travel agencies

- Write, proofread, edit and assemble instruction and training manuals - Work and communicate with Software Engineers to compose manuals- Maintain document library and electronic archive

Master Of Fine Arts, Communications/Nonfiction Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English