Stacey Mclaughlin Email & Phone Number

Greater Philadelphia Area/Delaware

• Craft original, effective copy for online, print, and digital platforms. Projects include content for websites, corporate branding and identity collateral, naming projects, direct mail content, email blasts, blogs.
• Proofread/quality control content to ensure consistency with brand, style guide, and 100% grammatical, design and spelling accuracy.
• Edit and proofread for clients including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Missoulian newspaper, Loudoun Magazine, New Homes Guide, The Baltimore Sun, and dozens of corporate clients.
• Proofread and edit all content to adhere to brand-specific copy and style guidelines while engaging/educating audience.
• Absorb information (sometimes highly technical and/or complex) and distill it into concise, consumer-friendly content.
• Collaborate with editors, designers, and writers to minimize errors, streamline editorial process, and adhere to strict deadlines.

• Copy edit a wide variety of marketing collateral content for optimal flow, clarity, and meaning while adhering to varying trademark and editorial policies, branding and in-house style guidelines.
• Fact-check, link-check, proofread, and conduct quality control to ensure consistency with brand voice and 100% accuracy in names, titles, material/resource references, grammar, spelling, products, and links.
• Work with content creators to extract intended meaning, improve text clarity, and optimize content.
• Write on-brand long-form and short-form copy for a diverse portfolio of agency clients across various industries and mediums.
• Adhere to each brand’s unique content guidelines and design systems, e.g. style guides, brand-specific voice and tone, UX writing principles and best practice copy techniques.
• Incorporate feedback, research insights and data to create empathetic, user-centered content.

• Hockessin, Delaware Aug 2022 – January 2023Editor, Foreign Policy – Leaders in Graduate Education special section
• Oversaw and curated content to ensure alignment with the editorial vision and quality standards.
• Collaborated with writers and contributors to select engaging and relevant stories that resonate with the audience.
• Edited and proofread articles to maintain clarity, coherence, and adherence to Foreign Policy's style guidelines. Ensured accuracy of information and fact-check content before publication.
• Worked closely with writers to refine writing and provide constructive feedback to enhance the overall quality.
• Enforced and upheld Foreign Policy's editorial style guide, ensuring consistency in language, formatting, and tone.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• May 2004 – January 2006 The Washington Post At Home Magazine Washington, D.C.Assistant Editor
• Edited and proofread all published content.
• Wrote and/or proofread feature stories and/or developed original story ideas.
• Managed contributing writers, photographers and designers.
• Wrote and/or oversaw creation of all promotional, marketing and online content.November 2002 – January 2006 The Washington Post Magazine Washington, D.C.Writer/Editor/Proofreader/Production Management
• Wrote special advertising sections about diverse range of topics including real estate, education, dining and local interests.

Wrote and/or proofread Agency correspondence to public inquiries regarding drinking water. Assisted with research and communication for white papers, emails, and print correspondence both internally and externally.