Maya Sweedler Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw the site’s 2022 election night coverage, coordinating two dozen staff and freelancer contributors for live coverage on Election Day through the conclusion of the midterm elections
• Responsible for two politics reporters, refining their pitches, assigning stories and top-editing copy

Greater New York City Area

• Copy edit and fact-check stories
• Edit and evaluate methodologies, statistical analyses and empirical claims to ensure that articles, charts, videos and interactive graphics meet the site’s standards for methodological rigor, clear presentation and.

• Covered House races in California during the midterm elections, with a focus on the state’s 50th Congressional District
• Wrote breaking stories off of public records, such as campaign finance disclosures, and candidates’ behavior
• Over 30 bylines in print and online for breaking news and political coverage, including two A1 and five section-front pieces
• Helped break news of an incumbent congressman’s featured supporter’s racist online presence; spearheaded subsequent coverage of the fallout

Greater New York City Area

• Covered local and national news for the Greater New York and U.S. News teams
• Pitched and wrote features, including a story on the economic impact of Florida’s red tide that was displayed for hours as the top story on The Journal’s homepage
• Over 20 bylines in print and online for breaking news and enterprise coverage, including an A1 feature on a Manhattan art installation

• Aided in reporting, researching and fact-checking for the book "Charged" (April 2019) focusing on the American criminal justice system

• Responsible for leading the News — a staff of about 200 editors, reporters, photographers, designers and illustrators — and running the nightly print and digital production cycle
• Manage and edit all content, spending spent 40+ hours per week working on the oldest college daily; includes pitching stories across all desks and coordinating between content and production desks
• Stories during my tenure included renaming of Calhoun College, the 2016 election and the opening of two new residential colleges
• Organized and oversaw a technology upgrade, including redesigning the building’s server system, migrating processes to the cloud and installing new computers
• Maintained CMS; engineered front-page redesign and pushed for a digital-first paper by revamping online presence

• Spent three months reporting two single-byline investigations
• Filed public records requests; analyzed data with Microsoft Excel and Access
• Covered breaking news, including a rally against police brutality and an anti-Muslim protest and counter-protest
• Published three A1 stories, two of which led the paper

• One of 10 recipients of Yale’s Paul Block Fellowship
• Over 24 bylines in print and online for sports, business, features and editorial desks
• Covered events ranging from the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Stanley Cup victory to the U.S. Open at Oakmont; contributed to the award-winning “Pittsburgh Penguins at 50” magazine

• Primarily a sports reporter; wrote between three and six articles a week, including features, investigations, series and recaps
• Investigated and broke news that a team captain was expelled for sexual assault in the middle of the season, a story that drew attention from national publications, and that Yale was under federal investigation for.
• Conducted surveys and interpreted data in order to construct profiles of the Yale class of 2020 and the student-athlete population
• Also a member of the Production & Design team; extensive graphic design experience

• Oversaw the Yale student government’s brand, press relations, public image, promotion partnerships, data collection, media production, web applications, Wordpress website, newsletter, all-college emails as well as.
• Restructured the Communications team and oversaw a team of 20 students who promoted events, created content and advocated on behalf of the student body
• Designed a new website for the organization and enhanced the organization's archives by uncovering old reports and former members