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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Self-publish book, movie and film reviews for personal WordPress blog.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Features reporter covering the books and movies scene in the Seattle area.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Lead the newsroom in social media training and strategy including the training of new hires • Pulled together cross-functional teams to transform The Seattle Times’ Instagram presence, increasing average monthly pageviews from Instagram by 275% • Improved newsroom workflows for monitoring breaking news with CrowdTangle and Slack integration• Collaborate with newsroom departments on story promotion and engagement strategies • Use critical thinking and news judgement to curate seattletimes.com, the Seattle Times mobile app and to A/B test headlines • Send breaking news alerts, including email, desktop and mobile push notifications, providing accurate and timely news updates during breaking news• Post Seattle Times content to social media and engage with readers by moderating comments • Monitor trends and readership analytics in real time• Consider and suggest ways to include voices from under-represented communities and endorse and support efforts to provide inclusive coverage to reach our audience as a member of the newsroom's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce • Participate in discussions of newsroom digital and social media strategies• Strategize and implement the adoption of digital best practices across the newsroom

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Created new social media accounts and developed growth and engagement strategies, analytic reports, best practices, training and daily hands-on curation of all of The News’ social accounts • Echobox expert, who experimented and trained editors on social media automation tool, A/B testing• Secured social media verification for The News’ core social accounts and CrowdTangle access• Researched distributed content and uses of emerging off-platforms with the potential to engage and attract readers • Monitored social analytics to make instant news judgements and created spreadsheets and reports monitoring social media trends over time • Created the “You Asked, We Answered” series and worked with editors and reporters to answer reader questions in digital and print• Marketed our flagship newsletter, “Good Morning, Buffalo,” by creating the @TheBuffaloNews’ Morning Coffee and Buffalo Evening News Twitter threads• Consulted and trained veteran journalists and editors on new and existing tools and best practices in reporting, verifying misinformation, connecting with readers and establishing their presence on social media • Experimented with ways to publish on platforms used by targeted audiences through Poynter’s Table Stakes Local News Innovation Program’s workshops• Built social calendars and databases for high-performing evergreen content, Twitter accounts pertaining to high school sports, generic photos that could be recirculated to save institutional knowledge• Edited videos, designed logos and graphics for social accounts• Worked closely with digital desk editors, assigning editors and reporters in breaking news situations • Solicited and collected reader photos and memories that were published on BuffaloNews.com and brand social media accounts • Worked with our Customer Service and IT departments to resolve reader questions, issues and complaints, especially during two major CMS transitions

Buffalo, New York, United States

Contributed to Gusto, The Buffalo News' food, arts and entertainment section.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Staff writer for news and entertainment sections of weekly student-run publication.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Recruited, trained, scheduled and managed a staff of 35 copy editors to proofread, fact check and consult the Associated Press Style guide as part of The Ithacan's editorial board.

Ithaca, New York Area

Anchor, producer and one-man-band television reporter and photographer who pitched, interviewed, wrote, shot and edited stories. Started career as an assistant producer who wrote stories, compiled over the shoulder box graphics, ran teleprompter and edited video and sound on tape. Newswatch 16 is Tompkins County's only local news program, broadcast to 26,000 Tompkins County and Ithaca households.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Duties include working on undercover shoots, logging tapes, transcribing footage, answering tip line and researching stories.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

General assignment reporter for daily online, weekly print and special publications including Fast Track Companies 2011 and Community All-Star. Also contributed clips to The Buffalo Law Journal.

London, United Kingdom

Wrote, researched, edited and compiled articles for “News From Britain and Ireland,” “The Church in the World,” “The Notebook” and “From the Archive” sections of weekly international Catholic paper during a four-month work study. Covered the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Shadowed reporters out on the field, made daily beat calls, transcribed closed captions, ingested feeds as well as wrote, shot, cut and edited various stories and footage.

Tonawanda, New York, United States

Transcribed voicemails for the paper’s sound-off column and wrote press releases and news stories.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Proofread, fact checked and consulted the Associated Press Style guide.

Ithaca, New York, United States

360 Magazine is a student-run Ithaca College magazine of narrative writing centered on one theme per issue per semester. The fall 2009 issue centered on health care and the spring 2010 issue was on The Commons, a four-block area of shops in downtown Ithaca. I contributed as a writer and copy editor.