Richard A. Marini Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Writer of single and series articles in areas as diverse as Business, Health, Science, Technology and Human Interest.• Contributor on team coverage of 2014 Fort Hood shooting. Won confidence of and interviewed a neighbor of one of the soldiers killed.• Covered 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as part of a nationwide contingent of Hearst journalists sent to Connecticut help support local reporters. Work produced by the Hearst reporters was collectively submitted for a Pulitzer Prize.• Traveled to Gettysburg, Little Big Horn and Pearl Harbor to report on how these iconic battlefields present their histories to the public as a way to help inform discussions of the Alamo Plaza Advisory Committee.• Columnist for the Taste section, named Best Newspaper Food Section in its circulation category four years in a row by the Association of Food Journalists.• Created Then & Now photo feature running in the Tuesday mySA section. Online Then & Now slideshow have generated over 4 million hits.• Producer of How to Tech online video series.• Contributor to attainment by the Express-News of Newspaper of the Year award given by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors.

Led and motivated staff of nine to perform at highest levels. Shepherded team through one of the most turbulent periods in industry history when uncertainty and reduced resources required new thinking, ideas and strategies.• Guided section through a cost-cutting effort in which feature stories and section design were shared with a sister publication based in Houston. Project involved regular remote and occasional in-person coordination with counterparts in Houston.• Assisted management in the separation of one-fifth of the newsroom staff during a company-wide layoff.

Concurrent With Above Work (2000 – Present); Full Time (1989 – 2000)

• Successful independent writer for numerous national publications with a 90% referral rate.• Profiled genetic scientist Kary Mullis 18 months prior to his receipt of the Nobel Prize.• Traveled by bush plane across Alaska’s Seward Peninsula tracing an investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory.• Board Member and Contracts Committee Chairman, American Society of Journalists and Authors.• Contributing writer to “The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing: A Professional Guide to the Business for Nonfiction Writers of All Experience Levels” (St. Martin’s Griffin).• Created Idea Marketplace, a trade show that connects writers with organizations that have stories they want told. Attracted more than 40 exhibitors the first year.SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Business, Consumer and TradeAmerican Archaeology CFO Bottom Line/Health Bottom Line/Personal Frequent FlyerGood Housekeeping Hemispheres Popular Science Travel and Leisure Weight Watchersand more

B.A, Journalism

Education record

Completed Medicine and the Media course

Education record

Completed Knight Foundation Public Health Journalism Boot Camp