Natalie Weger Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• Manages 14 staff writers through sourcing, breaking news and reporting. Crafts headlines for daily news articles.
• Works two eight-hour shifts per week to edit news and freelance articles for structure, clarity and AP style.
• Conducts biweekly interviews with university president, serving as a line of communication between administration and campus media

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Wrote more than 65 single-byline stories on cannabis legislation, workers’ rights, business developments, breaking news and more.
• Spearheaded coverage of campus reaction to Israel-Palestine as justice reporter. Wrote series of articles on vigils, protests and student government controversies.
• Broke data story on the record-number of hate bias incidents at the university amid violence in Israel and Palestine.
• Uncovered 26% increase of Black faculty by analyzing publicly available data. Revisited newspaper’s former coverage in addressing racial justice on campus.
• Wrote multiple data stories, including mapping each Maryland cannabis dispensary and examining popularity of university dining halls.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Served as a business reporting intern for a daily newspaper covering economic, legal and legislative news across Maryland.
• Pitched and wrote a combination of daily news and enterprise stories, totaling 24 single-bylined articles over eight weeks.
• Hit daily deadlines to cover affordable childcare, city development projects, sports tourism, business profiles and more.
• Wrote explainer piece on national settlement that shook the real estate industry, created data visualizations on child poverty across Maryland.
• Selected by prestigious MDDC Press Association for competitive internship.

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Interviewed nearly a dozen childcare experts for long-form article about pre-K expansion across the state
• Contributed to six-month long enterprise project on the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future
• Mapped pre-K participation rates across each county in data visualization
• Reporting picked up by The Baltimore Sun, The Capital Gazette and MoCo360

Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

• Liaison between Montgomery Sentinel and student work in Montgomery County
• Aided in creation of the Sentinel's "student section"
• Freelanced feature pieces
• Sifted through 40+ pieces of student work for republishing

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism And Information Science, Junior

Activities and Societies: Society of Professional Journalists, Asian American Journalists Association, Investigative Reporters and.

Education record

Activities and Societies: The Tide Student Newspaper, Generation Z Tutoring Club, MoCo for Literacy, RMHS Student Government Association.