Peter Ortiz Email & Phone Number

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Mass media reporter/writer for Ignites Asia, a Financial Times publication that covers the asset management industry in Asia.

Remote

Writer for Progressive Human Resource Management covering and writing about the human resources industry and HR trends in the US and globally.

Greater New York City Area

Mutual fund publication launched by Money-Media, a subsidiary of Financial Times Financial Publishing Group, which itself was bought in July 2015 by The Nikkei Inc., whose flagship publication is The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (literally Japan Economic Newspaper), the world’s largest financial newspaper with daily circulation exceeding 3 million.• Cover U.S. mutual funds for an online, subscription-based publication renowned for coverage of industry. • Research, report on and write about compliance and regulatory issues affecting the asset management industry. Reporting includes interviewing industry professionals and C-suite officers, compliance experts, lawyers, and U.S. and international regulators such as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), U.S. Departments of Labor and Treasury, FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), and The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).• Report and write about other issues / topics about industry, including pension plans, 401(k)s, liquid alternative mutual funds (liquid alts), alternative funds, closed-end funds, variable annuities, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) coverage, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regulatory matters and legislative actions impacting industry.

Newark, Nj

Ranked No. 1 worldwide for total Web traffic and social-media reach, diversity publication has almost 900,000 Facebook likes and Twitter followers, more than 250,000 e-mail newsletter subscribers and circulation of nearly 200,000. DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity is a leading assessment of diversity management in Corporate America and globally.• Reported and wrote short and long features about communities of color on everything from Corporate America to global politics, for both an online and magazine print publication. • Covered diversity in automobile industry primarily by interviewing high-ranking corporate officials and tracking diversity trends. • Covered universal issues such as immigration and global diversity with focus on economics. o Traveled to four different states in Brazil and interviewed top U.S. and Brazilian business officials as well as Brazilian advocates for diversity and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Joaquim Barbosa, on role of global diversity – the business case for diversity – in that BRIC nation. o Coverage in Iowa involved interviewing business, political, academic and social leaders and immigrant workers and reporting on role and influence immigration has had in reshaping life in an overwhelmingly white U.S. state. • Reported on all aspects of diversity for both magazine and Web site, including race, ethnicity, gender and economics.• Assisted with fact-checking duties.

Mesa, Az

Copper State’s largest newspaper, a Gannett Co. property, has circulation of 321,600 weekdays, 347,134 Saturdays and 538,579 Sundays. Notable figures include Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Benson; news columnist and national Sunshine Awardee Laurie Roberts; and Luis Manuel Ortiz, Arizona Journalism Hall of Fame’s sole Hispanic member. • Launched diversity reporting beat to track increasing diversity in one of fastest-growing regions in U.S. Coverage comprised tracking how demographic and ethnic diversity, primarily Latino, was changing life in Mesa metropolitan area. • Covered various beats including police, courts, education, immigration and Latino issues. Focus of daily reporting of these areas and included covering meetings; attending community, school and university events, as well as press conferences; and reporting on migrant farm community.• Package of reports examined how private, home health-care facilities offered culturally and religiously appropriate care for older South Asian and Muslim residents..

Syracuse, New York Area

Known earlier as The Syracuse Newspapers, winner of six Newspaper of Distinction awards from New York State Associated Press Association and eight first-place awards from New York News Publishers Association. Scarborough Research Corp. ranks the Sunday edition as No. 3 in the nation and Syracuse.com newspaper Web site as No. 1 for market penetration.• Covered numerous beats including politics, police, courts and education, featuring daily beat reporting that often involved interacting with police and community leaders. • A series of shootings involving young black boys evolved into feature article about toll of urban crime as seen and felt by a young, black funeral director and father who ended up burying many of these victims.• Feature on number of guns being found in streets by young children evolved from regular coverage of shootings involving urban youth. • Regular daily beat reporting that entailed reviewing police reports turned into feature about father who turned his son into police after finding gun hidden in the latter’s room. The father, himself a former convict, was not around much for the youth and helped create an environment in which his son turned to the streets.

Greater New York City Area

A major Japanese daily with combined 5.56 million circulation, Mainichi Shimbun publishes bilingual news magazine, Mainichi Weekly; paperbacks, books and other magazines, including weekly news magazine, Sunday Mainichi; and operates an English-language news Web site called The Mainichi. Publication has distinction of being Japan’s only newspaper to win a Pulitzer Prize for photograph taken in 1960 by Yasushi Nagao of a political assassination in Tokyo.• Reported and wrote feature articles in English on business, life and cultural events in New York City of interest to Japanese readership in Japan. • Helped assisting managing editor cover business meetings and interviews of executives.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Finance

Fellowship, Covering The Law

Designated a Fellow of The Knight Center by the National Advisory Board of The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism.