Working where journalism meets tech and business development. Running growth initiatives for the company, driving digital subscriptions through increased engagement and building local news habits. Areas of focus: reading experience; newsletters; mobile apps; registration incentives; social media strategy; newsroom publishing tools.

Ran a team of reporters, editors and producers who covered Food & Drink, Travel & Outdoors, Arts & Entertainment and lifestyle for The Seattle Times print edition and seattletimes.com. Redesigned two Sunday print sections into a new brand –– The Mix; launched newsletters; coordinated digital initiatives and more.

Assign and edit food and lifestyle coverage. Manage a small team of staff reporters, freelancers and the features section's web producer. Direct digital strategy for the entire department, monitoring traffic and engagement. Seek opportunities to steer features staffers to become more reactive to the day's news, while still prioritizing longer-term enterprise projects.

Responsible for digital strategy, presentation and promotion of arts, entertainment, travel and lifestyle content on seattletimes.com and social media. Managed features web projects, such as a guide to Washington liquor, and holiday-food sections. Worked closely with Product and developers to create newsroom-wide tools and workflows for digital production.

Managed seattletimes.com homepage: curating content, building story-level packages and centerpieces, keeping a healthy balance of content for readers to find. Handled social media promotion and engagement efforts. In the hot seat during multiple breaking-news events, juggling many responsibilities.

Edited Seattle Times features content, with some time spent on news desk. Streamlined production processes for print Sunday features section, and online content. Ran multiple reader-engagement projects.