Molly Minta Email & Phone Number

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

- The Appeal, reported on Florida’s criminal justice system, from the low prosecution rate of sex crimes in the Eighth Circuit (2019) to the harmful impact anti-trafficking stings on the sex worker community (2020)- Splinter News, reported on the history of Gainesville’s last feminist bookstore after it closed for the website’s local reporting project, Think Local (2018);- The Nation, contributed reported columns to StudentNation, including covering a UF graduate detained by Israel for her affiliation with a pro-BDS club after she entered the country to pursue a master’s degree (2018);- WUFT News, reported a 2,500-word feature about the impacts of a proposed phosphate mine on rural North Florida communities (2018).

- Fact-checked features, book reviews, and columns to rigorous standards for weekly print magazine, as well as quick turn-around online stories. - Compiled research for The Nation’s columnists. - Produced 3-5 daily web stories, including editing photos, and writing captions and headlines.

Gainesville, Florida Area

- Responsible for a 12-person staff plus freelancers at this quarterly alternative magazine and website;- Guided new and experienced writers through reported features and columns for the 40-page paper while reporting my own longform print features, breaking online news, budgeting, pitching, fact checking and copy editing, designing pages and online graphics, shooting photos and teaching journalism workshops;- Investigated and broke a 6,000-word enterprise story on sexual assault allegations at a community theater that led to the board of directors adopting its first-ever anti-harassment policy;- Promoted from print editor to EIC.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

- Pitched, reported and wrote weekly stories for web-first alternative magazine;- Investigated and broke an enterprise feature story on residents organizing for better conditions at a Section 8 housing complex that contributed to the management company making repairs;- Fact-checked the annual Best of Miami issue, as well as over 540 online restaurant listings;- Copy edited the website and print magazine.