Sam Tabachnik Email & Phone Number

Greater Denver Area

•Reported from Cambodia and Thailand to expose Colorado connection to global illicit antiquities trafficking operation. Yearlong investigation led Denver Art Museum to remove items from its collection and repatriate to countries of origin. The museum also removed a donor’s name off gallery wall and returned six-figure donation to her family•Investigation into Colorado VA hospital system exposed illegal practices. Story prompted congressional oversight and department changes•Investigation into Colorado’s emergency management director prompted state to reorganize the agency to address toxic workplace concerns•Continued coverage of Colorado’s mobile home parks spurred new laws to protect residents•Sweeping report showcased Oklahoma’s largely unregulated medical marijuana program•Unearthed the strange, untold story behind the King Soopers family fortune

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Write, research and produce segments on national and international news for senior foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson• Write and contribute articles and videos on national issues for NBCNews.com• Shoot/edit video for TV and digital site• Develop and expand social media engagement plan, targeting more than 1.5 million followers

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Launched, wrote and produced a morning news digest of the day's top 10 stories designed for mobile and tablet. • Built newsletter audience from 0 to 10,000 subscribers in five months. Today in 10 with one of the top open rates of any WaPo newsletter. • Wrote weekly sports column called The Ticker, designed specifically for mobile and tablet audience. Covered the top sports stories of the week using all forms of digital tools: videos, tweets, vines and graphics. • Profiled documentary films and comedians for Style section • In charge of writing political trivia questions for mobile phone game, "Floppy Candidate." A parody of the hit phone game Flappy Bird, Floppy Candidate was built by The Post's in-house team of engineers, designers and editors. Trivia questions consist of satirical political news from the 2016 election season.• Pitched the most interesting and newsworthy Washington Post stories to Apple News and MSN editorial teams.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Wrote multiple enterprise stories featured on Sunday’s front page, chronicling the intersection of athletics, crime and education • Helped lead 10th anniversary series on Hurricane Katrina, profiling dozens of NBA, NFL and Division I athletes

Greater New Orleans Area

• Conducted in-depth investigative reporting on government, charter schools and criminal justice for New Orleans’ only nonprofit public-interest newsroom • Broke stories on police department malpractice, Orleans Parish sheriff’s race and environmental policy

Greater New Orleans Area

•Helped launch year-long series on gun culture in New Orleans. The Gun Report brought together personal essays, short videos and photo galleries from people across the ideological spectrum•Extensively covered entrepreneurship, incubators and social innovation

New Orleans, La

Called constituents, set up award initiatives with schools in the district, organized graduation ceremonies and connected with local businesses.

Greater New Orleans Area

Acted as liaison between Tulane workforce management department and student workers. Collected and delivered time sheets, organized meetings, and dealt with employment issues. As tutor, I took the neediest students out of the classroom for one-on-one work in math, reading, history, science and English. I worked with them on strategies for improved fluency, speed and comprehension as well as tips for test taking.

Political Science, Political Science And Government

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government