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Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Ann Arbor, Mi

Assigning, editing, and writing features and news stories for an online publication about business, development, innovation, and regional politics in the Ann Arbor area. In 2017 I oversaw the implementation of a new embedded reporting program in Ypsilanti, as well as an 83 percent year-over-year web traffic increase. Duties also include managing social media feeds and a weekly email newsletter.

Writing blog posts on neighborhoods, popular homes, homebuying advice, and real estate trends.

Assigning and editing feature stories in partnership with nonprofit and government clients. Working with a statewide team of freelance writers and photographers on story topics including health equity and talent development.

Greater Detroit Area

Writing features on business development, innovation, technology, arts, and regional politics for Issue Media Group's publications. Publications include Model D (covering Detroit), Metromode (covering metro Detroit), Concentrate (covering Washtenaw County), and Driven (covering Detroit's mobility industry).

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Performing administrative duties and serving as a voting board member of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, a micro-philanthropic entity that awards a monthly $1,000 mini-grant. Responsibilities include fielding and compiling grant applications, leading monthly meetings, coordinating social media and public relations, and writing press releases.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Writing features, profiles, news briefs, band reviews and film reviews for an Ann Arbor monthly news magazine.

Detroit, Mi

Writing entertainment features, business news and movie reviews for one of Detroit's two major daily newspapers.

New York, Ny

Writing features on auto news for My Ford Magazine, Ford's quarterly owner publication. Also wrote sponsored content for Real Simple Magazine.

Royal Oak, Mi

Writing arts and culture-related features for a major Detroit monthly news magazine.

Grand Rapids, Mi

Writing a weekly film capsule review column for MLive's eight Michigan print newspapers, reaching a total audience of 260,000 across the Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Muskegon, Saginaw, Jackson, and Bay City markets.

Responsible for answering reference questions and generally interfacing with the public, as well as some collection maintenance and general branch maintenance.

Royal Oak, Mi

Served as the lead film critic for one of Detroit's two major alt-weeklies. Also wrote a variety of arts and entertainment features and music reviews.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Responsible for developing and planning all local entertainment content for The A.V. Club’s local website and print publication, writing about 80% of said content, managing and editing freelance writers, and managing local social networking presence. Also wrote news briefs for The A.V. Club's national site. Ann Arbor franchise closed due to low ad revenue.

Writing features, A&E, criticism, and news for publications including Hour Detroit, Real Detroit Weekly, and The South End.

Detroit, Michigan

Responsibilities included interviewing newsmakers, using ENCO system to edit sound bytes, and writing news copy for broadcast.

Reported on a variety of news and A&E stories and reviews. Also did copy editing work and did page design using Adobe Pagemaker.

Monroe, Michigan

Arranged and conducted taped interviews in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Monroe for a documentary on Monroe’s annual Black History Month blues concert series.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Associate Of Science (A.S.)