Saba Ali Email & Phone Number

Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

• Reported and wrote deeply researched stories about homelessness, affordable housing, COVID-19, and Child Victims Act
• Expanded the newspaper’s coverage of minority communities.
• Collaborated with the state team on regional stories

• Published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost and Newsday
• Developed and executed a strategy to rebrand Islamic Horizons, a 30-year-old print publication focused on the lived Muslim experience, by creating and maintaining its website
• Assisted various non-profit organizations with grant writing, newsletters and marketing
• Designed in-house marketing strategies for businesses advertising in Hudson Valley Magazine using Photoshop and Illustrator

Melville, New York

• Interactive projects: Newsday.com/pathwaytopower | Newsday.com/sanctuaries | Newsday.com/thanksgivingonli | Newsday.com/helmets | Newsday.com/gilgo
• Managed nearly one hundred interactive news and lifestyle feature projects; led teams of developers, designers, videographers, reporters and web editors and worked closely with top executives and editors
• Lead project manager on priority multimedia and multi-platform interactive projects such as the Voters Guide; worked to come up with designs and user experience; helped editorially build out candidate profiles and.
• Coordinated multi-departmental podcast initiative to develop content ideas presented to senior management; worked with audience development team to better understand market interest
• Directed the collection of data, photo and videos to transform print ideas into multimedia platform packages
• Co-chaired newsroom-wide diversity leadership committee to develop initiatives that aim to improve representation, inclusion in content, hiring practices and outreach

Farmingdale, New York

• Packaged and prioritized content on Newsday.com; collected and curated assets such as photo galleries, videos and databases.

New York, New York

• Selected, assigned and prioritized news items for the North American, Global Equities, and Global Markets websites
• Edited site for consistent style and wrote headlines; and updated enterprise and main story packages and created multimedia packages
• Coordinated morning handoff between the New York and London staff to ensure adequate coverage and knowledge transfer of international stories such as Greece's debt crisis and the Arab springs

New York, New York

• Wrote news briefs; contacted businesses and corporations when presented with inaccuracies and conflicting reports

Pleasantville, New Jersey

• Pursued investigative stories and expanded coverage of three counties in New Jersey.
• Developed a beat focused on economic trends, through the lens of emerging and struggling businesses

Piscataway, New Jersey

• Reported on breaking news, business trends, city budgets, political corruption and economic redevelopment stories
• Received the Star-Ledger: Best Writing award in Dec. 2005 for a feature on international adoptions

Syracuse, New York Area

• Reported and wrote articles for the metro and regional desk on community events, businesses, agriculture and politics

Utica, New York

• Reported and wrote articles for the metro and regional desk on community events, businesses, agriculture and politics

New York, New York

• Increased viewership of the Ms. Magazine web site via development of banner advertisements and management of online merchandise
• Worked with marketing and design department on fundraisers and annual proposals; administered human resources and publisher’s daily schedule

M.A., Newspaper, Magazine And Online Journalism

Activities and Societies: Newhouse Minority Fellowship

B.A., Communication

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude