Marques Harper Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

El Segundo, California, United States

• Continuing my duties as deputy features editor for a 20-person features team while assigning and editing dating and relationships coverage and the L.A. Affairs column along with cannabis, home and celebrity stories. • Serve as editor for the Weekend section of lifestyle, travel and food stories and work with line editors, writers, art directors, photo editors, digital editors and copy editors on this new print product.• Writing and editing duties for Image Magazine’s spring issues as well as editing the weekly Los Angeles Times News Quiz.• Assigned and line-edited Adam Tschorn’s essay about his dad who was dying and a special hat that became a joyous Thanksgiving tradition for Adam. The essay picked up a 1st-place 2022 L.A. Press Club SoCal Journalism Awards win for humor/satire writing. Judges’ comment: “This wonderfully reminiscent piece about an act that brought others joy picks up where the author's beloved turkey hat left off.”

El Segundo, California, United States

• Led a team of 12 staff writers, an assistant editor, newsletter writers, and freelance writers and editors covering lifestyle topics, including fashion, cannabis, travel, homes, relationships, plants and hiking. Also oversaw day-to-day operations in features as well as the Saturday print section and worked with art directors, copy editors and photo editors daily on digital stories.• Worked directly with the deputy managing editor for lifestyle on assigning stories, developing team projects and goals, coaching writers, long-term planning and budgeting. Also edited and worked with the writers of two L.A. Times travel newsletters, Escapes and The Wild, which garnered higher open rates and views.• In 2021, oversaw print and digital production of the 24-page Gift Guide, the Advent Calendar pages, the seven-page Trails & Ales hiking section, the seven-page Winter California List, the 10-page Artist Takeover special section and the 24-page New Year, New You special section as well as several points-of-interest features.• During awards season, directed fashion, style and party coverage as well as assigned and developed features and projects for online, the Calendar section and the Oscars special section with the Entertainment & Arts editors.• Assigned and line-edited the 2021 1st-place-winning story in the lifestyle feature category from the L.A. Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards. Had the idea for a story about kissing, intimacy and COVID-19 and collaborated with writer Stacey Leasca on the Saturday cover story. (The judges’ comment: "The writer's ability to weave the psychological reasons for kissing and people's attitudes toward the practice during the pandemic made for an enjoyable read.")• Worked on the launch of Image magazine, assigning, editing and writing front-of-book fashion and style features. Wrote the Coveted feature of product picks and created several regular magazine features.

El Segundo, California

• Assisted managing 12 staff writers and assistant editors (including three direct reports) covering fashion, travel, cannabis and general lifestyle topics for the Los Angeles Times and latimes.com and worked on long-term planning, editing and budgeting for the department. • Oversaw fashion and style news as well as red-carpet, party, jewelry, celebrity, arts, TV, beauty and cannabis lifestyle coverage for the Image and Saturday sections. • During awards season, directed fashion, style and party coverage (including stories, liveblog posts and our red-carpet fashion hits/misses gallery) as well as assign and develop features and projects (such as our augmented-reality Oscars dress feature and filters with Yahoo! News) for online, the Calendar section and the Oscars special section.• Assigned and edited lifestyle stories for the Saturday section, assisted with getting stories promoted on the homepage and on various social-media platforms, and worked with our photo editors and art directors on photo shoots for the Image newsprint section.• Wrote profiles of fashion designers and celebrities as well as general fashion news and trend stories.• My work was part of the Los Angeles Times entry that won Best Section (first place) in the Society for Features Journalism’s 2020 Excellence in Features awards. Was the lead editor and project manager for our special fashion section examining sneaker culture and basketball. (Judge’s comments: "Wow. Readers of the LA Times get a wow with every section from this paper’s features department so it appears.")• Was part of the Emmy Award-winning team behind "L.A. Times Today," a nightly newsmagazine show from the Los Angeles Times and Spectrum News 1.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Oversaw production and created editorial plans for 20 issues per year of the Image section, with an emphasis on celebrating diversity, inclusion and L.A., as well as assigned digital stories and projects related to fashion for latimes.com. • Oversaw a team of six, which included an assistant editor and freelance writers.• Wrote fashion designer and celebrity profiles as well as general fashion and trend stories and breaking news.• Planned fashion news for staff and freelance contributors as well as red-carpet, party, jewelry and beauty coverage and fashion photo shoots for Image.• Directed fashion, style and party coverage (including stories, liveblog items and red-carpet hits/misses gallery) for awards season as well as assigned and developed features and projects for online, the Calendar section and the Oscars special section. Also worked with a newsroom team on our 24-page special section about the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.• As a department head, represented the features teams at weekly planning meetings with masthead editors and reported directly to two managing editors.• Conducted editorial meetings on behalf of the L.A. Times with representatives for major fashion brands and houses and indie designers during a three-week visit to Milan, Paris and London in 2018.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Worked as part of a Los Angeles Times-based team and with Chicago and New York team members of Tribune Content Solutions, the digital marketing and content agency of Tribune Publishing, to create original concepts, pitches and digital campaigns for nine U.S. markets for sponsored and native content. I produced content and ideas for podcasts, social media updates, video series, listicles, infographics and stories and microsites for national and international clients of the L.A. Times and other Tribune Publishing newspapers and news websites.• Conceived, edited and produced digital content using SEO best practices, project research and analytics, social media listening, internal brainstorming and client feedback.• Managed a content team of five digital storytellers on three to four native or sponsored content campaigns per month and edited key project elements for client approval.• Experience using content and project management systems such as Skyword and Basecamp in addition to using the proprietary CMS of Tribune Content Solutions.• Edited content programs for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and the (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel.

Los Angeles, California

• Wrote and developed content including listicles, stories and product picks about men’s grooming, wellness and style for the Bevel Code website.• Served as a social media contributor for Vanity Fair Social Club’s Oscars and Emmys programming.Past projects:• Served as a social media content contributor for entertainment shows such as “The Insider” and “Access Hollywood."• As an entertainment correspondent for Tribeza magazine in Austin, Texas, wrote blog profiles about comedians including Josh Wolf and Ross Mathews and covered the city’s annual TV festival and wrote print stories about artists, designers and home entertainment.• Worked with Los Angeles creator of Emmy-nominated web series "Send Me," which starred Tracie Thoms and Gabrielle Carteris, to create promotional content and gain national coverage for crowd-funding campaign, which raised more than $40,000 for series production. I also was a production assistant on the series.• Completed YouTube channel creation coursework and advanced video production classes.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Served as a metro reporter covering news and features in several cities and towns in the Austin metro area.

Austin, Texas

• For the Statesman's magazine Glossy, primarily served as a project manager and art director for a team of six creatives working on fashion and product photo shoots.• Wrote stories and coordinated photo-shoot logistics for Glossy and the weekly Life & Style section.• Wrote a style column and stories about fashion designers and TV personalities including John Varvatos, Carson Kressley and Tim Gunn for print; also shot online videos for stories and stand-alone pieces.• Worked with web developers and marketing team to coordinate reader contests, social media promotions and live tweet coverage for Oscars and Emmys.• Blogged about fashion trends, breaking style news and entertainment.• Promoted Austin fashion and beauty coverage and led style discussions on Facebook and Twitter.• Wrote profiles about newsworthy Austin residents including the story of the comeback of a fashion designer recovering from breast cancer as well as movie reviews related to fashion and style films and general fashion and style picks columns.• Won a Statesman What’s the Big Idea?! Award in 2011 for proposing that Cox Media Group launch a microsite for women on the go with content topics such as fashion, parenting, politics, health, education and entertainment.• Awarded a 2007 American Association of Sunday and Features Editors/Society of Features Journalism Diversity Fellowship.

Roanoke, Virginia

• Served as a host of newspaper’s daily news and entertainment web series called "TimesCast."• Interviewed actors, authors and media personalities.• Developed online strategies and contests to reach audience of 175,000 subscribers and promote written and online content.• Wrote and edited BuzzFeed-style listicles and charticles on pop culture, food and current events. • Worked with graphic designer on a story about dance that included online animation demonstrating movements.• Broke news about racial segregation in city’s social scene, uncovered drug abuse by local TV meteorologists and blogged about fitness and wellness.• Served as a leader for a journalism training program for 20 high school students and as an editor for monthly teen-oriented news pages.

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

• Created, wrote and edited content for weekly home decor and gardening section, serving 80,000 subscribers.• Interviewed celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and Joan Rivers as well as artists, authors, filmmakers and singers as part of daily entertainment coverage.• Coordinated quarterly authors’ series and in-person book talks with local independent bookstore and led weekly discussions for the book club introducing new and established authors on tour.• Covered beauty and fashion trends and profiles on local newsworthy residents as well as news pieces including one about a local man’s death tied to the September 11, 2011, terrorist attacks.

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

• Covered news and features related to small business, tech and the airport.

Trenton, New Jersey

• Assisted NYT Metro reporters (at New Jersey's Statehouse) who covered state politics, politicians and breaking-news stories for nine months in 1999 (during the summer months I was a metro intern at The Oregonian).• As a freelancer, wrote two New York Times stories about politics and education, which were published in the former New Jersey section of The Times. (Prior to this, I had my NYT debut in 1998 with a story about Rutgers merchandise.)

Willingboro, Nj

• Assisted the staff of the Burlington County Times' sports department. I also wrote feature stories, worked on the agate and wrote briefs for the Sports section.

Master Of Science - M.S., Digital Media Management

Bachelor Of Arts - B.A., English Literature, Creative Writing, American Studies

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-chief of The Daily Targum (about 20,000 daily circulation), editor of Inside Beat entertainment.