Stefanie Loh Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Added oversight of The Seattle Times' digital operation to my portfolio as a member of the senior leadership team.

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Part of the senior leadership team that leads a newsroom of about 160 journalists. - I oversee the features department, our Sunday magazine and staff development. This includes charting editorial strategy and using data to help drive audience growth. On the staff development front, I come up with initiatives and programs to foster a sense of belonging in the newsroom and keep morale up. For instance, I oversee the newsroom's mentorship and internship programs.- Conceived, planned and executed the inaugural (2024) Best of the PNW College Journalism Symposium for student journalists.- Conceived and project managed newsroom-wide projects.- Oversee hiring for the departments I manage- Coach managers in leadership and day-to-day operations.

Seattle, Washington

- Led a department of 15 journalists and oversaw coverage of food and drink, travel and outdoors, and arts and entertainment. - Used analytics and data to make strategic coverage situations that drove subscriber growth. As a result, in five years from 2019-2023, the number of subscriptions influenced by Features stories annually increased by more than 72%. Over the same five-year span, the number of annual pageviews from Features stories increased by 22%, and the number of unique users increased by 20%.- Led coverage that resulted in 10 Society for Features Journalism awards during my tenure.- Worked with reporters to ideate, brainstorm and run beats to produce useful, unique, interesting and relevant stories for our readers.- Hired new staffers and interns, and built an ambitious, creative team of reporters, editors and production-side journalists.- Managed the Features budget competently and creatively, finding ways to cut down on inefficiencies while repurposing funds to ensure the best use of our resources and align our coverage needs with audience demand. For instance, over five years. I bolstered our editing staff and our food writing staff and added an outdoors reporter and a communities reporter while staying mostly budget neutral.

Seattle, Washington

I oversaw our sports digital operation, Seahawks, Storm, college hoops, Olympics and enterprise. During my tenure as assistant sports editor, I introduced some new organizational and infrastructure tools for the department, overhauled the way we cover the Seahawks during the season, and oversaw coverage of the Seattle Storm's 2018 WNBA championship run.

Seattle, Washington

Backup Seahawks beat writer, also concurrently covering WSU football

Greater Seattle Area

I expanded our coverage of Washington State football and made The Seattle Times the source for authoritative, in-depth and insightful information on anything pertaining to the Cougars football team. I take pride in not only staying ahead of local and national competitors, but providing our readers with unique story angles and analysis not available anywhere else. During my time on the beat, I've cultivated a network of sources, increased The Seattle Times' share of WSU football readership, and maintained a strong online presence both on social media and SeattleTimes.com. I particularly enjoy identifying, researching and reporting longer narrative features, and issue and trend stories.

San Diego, Ca

I wrote sports features (about everything — the wider the variety, the better), ran a new audience engagement initiative on the Chargers beat, and was responsible for our coverage on college football and the San Diego State Aztecs.

Greater San Diego Area

I covered the San Diego State football team, maintained an Aztecs blog that incorporated social media and multimedia reporting tools, conceptualized enterprise off the beat. Also featured weekly in sports programming for in-house TV station, UT-TV

Sports enterprise and Penn State football.I was part of the Patriot-News coverage team that won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 2012 for coverage of the Penn State-Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. I was the Penn State football multimedia reporter at the time and responsible for developing enterprise, producing a steady stream of written and video content for PennLive.com. As a sports videographer, I led the sports department’s foray into video storytelling. Edited and shot video and trained other sports staffers to shoot and edit video.As sports enterprise writer, I followed national trends and developed projects especially in regard to high school sports.

Football beat writer covering the West Virginia University Mountaineers, a top-25 FBS college football team.

Covered minor league baseball, GA, and sports enterprise

Eugene, Oregon Area

I covered a variety of Duck sports including: tennis, basketball, track and lacrosse

Mfa, Creative Nonfiction Writing

Ba, Journalism, History

Activities and Societies: Club Women's Lacrosse, ASUO Women's Center, Oregon Daily Emerald student newspaper, Phi Beta Kappa