Marti A. Moore Email & Phone Number

I don't wait for the press release to tell me what to write. I hit the pavement and explore the community-at-large. Residents tell me what they want to know and I gather intel to deliver them news they can use. Best part is meeting ordinary people unaware of the extraordinary things they do as they try to improve the quality of life of others in their own.

Northern Virginia

Published articles:BUSINESSMy situational awareness about a small town in Western Fairfax County helped me successfully pitch a story about a former First Lady the day after she died. “How Nancy Reagan put Clifton on the map” is on pages 3 and 7 of the March 10, 2016, Fairfax Station/ Clifton/ Lorton Connection at.

Northern Virginia

Published articles:HUMANITARIAN RELIEFHow some Northern Virginians helped survivors of 10 natural disasters in five short weeks at the end of summer 2017:The United Methodist Committee on Relief responds globally to victims of natural disasters. In the United States, UMCOR operates supply depots, affiliate warehouses, and distribution points in Alabama.

SOCIAL JUSTICEMy late editor — Kemal Kurspahic — witnessed his country collapse in the 1990s while covering the Bosnian War for his newspaper in Sarajevo and other publications around the world. He was a guest speaker at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., where he met a lady who recounted her World War II experience as a prisoner of the.

Wrote copy and designed post cards promoting events sponsored by the Town of Clifton Committee on Historic Preservation.Created promotional material — such as advertisements, post cards and coupons — for small businesses in Clifton, Va., which saved the merchants thousands of dollars in retainer fees most public relations firms charge to promote their.

Rockville, Md.

Full-time editorial assistant with a staff writer byline at a daily newspaper in Rockville, Md.Compiled announcements for a weekly government calendar my editors asked me to create during my second week on the job. City of Rockville staffers brought their Sister Cities International guests from Pinneburg, Germany, to our newsroom for copies of my calendar.

Charleston, S.C.

Drummed-up business for a new graphic design boutique in historic Charleston at 57 Broad St. Generated business leads. Sold our services to clients in need of new corporate identity, from logos to annual reports.Worked for a graphic designer who specialized in Swiss style, an aesthetic created and developed by European artists in the first half of the 20th.

Charleston, S.C.

Advertising and business manager of The Cougar Pause, the student-run newspaper at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.Generated top advertisement sales of $33,000 for a biweekly broadsheet. Supervised staff recruitment, training, public relations and sales of a department worth $68,000. Maintained national clients — such as AT&T and Apple.

Charleston, S.C.

Copy editor of The Cougar Pause, the student-run newspaper at the College of Charleston. Processed stories written by reporters, press releases, and news wire reports. Edited copy for style, grammatical and libel errors according to AP Style guidelines. Helped with newspaper layout.Staff writer who wrote articles for news, entertainment and sports.