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Manage homepage of national news website with 11 million monthly uniques. Responsibilities include choosing and assigning original content, choosing wire content, selecting and editing photos, as well as styling and posting text, photos and video to site on deadline using Kentico CMS. Use tools including Chartbeat and Omniture to inform homepage management decisions.

White Plains, Ny

I supervised reporters in producing content in a high-pressure, deadline-oriented environment for web (lohud.com) and print (The Journal News).• Coordinated coverage of breaking news across all platforms, including the homepage, mobile sites and apps and in The Journal News print products.• Planned weekend and advance news coverage.• Edited text, photo and video content.• Managed www.lohud.com daily, using Gannett’s content-management system (CMS), curating content and deciding page position and presentation.• Wrote headlines and teaser text, tweaked content for search-engine optimization (SEO) targets and chose and edited photo and video content.• Wrote content for site.• Created video content for site; trained to shoot and edit on iPhone.• Participated in strategy to grow digital traffic and build audience.• Administered and created branded social networking content on Twitter and Facebook.• Position was eliminated in a nationwide cutback at all Gannett U.S. Community Publishing locations.

Manhattan

• Directed breaking news coverage in almost every topic area from local news and crime to celebrity, national and international news. • Directed reporters and writers in quickly getting information and prepared content for publication on www.nydailynews.com and in print.• Edited web and print content for accuracy and readability. • Used Daily News content management system to publish content to web.

Greater New York City Area

• Chose and managed content, wrote headlines and copy and monitored performance for MSN.com, Microsoft’s general-interest Internet portal. • Coordinated with other departments and partners to obtain and improve content and worked with photo editors to ensure click-friendly illustrations.• Used a number of tools, including Omniture, Google Trends and proprietary programs, to make decisions about content to feature on the homepage.• Used Microsoft’s content management system to build, preview, publish and update homepage content.• Position was a one-year, nonrenewable contract.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

• Managed national celebrity weekly’s newsgathering operations. Duties included: Coordinating reporting; brainstorming ideas for new and ongoing coverage; working with sources, stringers, tipsters, publicists and celebrities; running the department in executive editor’s or news director’s absence; recruiting and training reporters and stringers; tracking and controlling newsgathering costs.• Helped revive and direct magazine’s website.

Greater New York City Area

Researched and wrote stories, directed reporters and collaborated with the editorial director, the editor in chief and others at the national celebrity weekly

Greater New York City Area

Assigned and deployed reporters on breaking news stories and ran the department two days a week and during vacations.

Hackensack, N.J.

Supervised reporters, edited copy and designed pages in a variety of roles at the suburban daily. Specialties included courts and crime, general assignment, computer-assisted reporting and entertainment. I was an assistant metro editor during much of my tenure, but also worked as a copy editor, a regional editor and entertainment editor.

Trenton, N.J.

Covered municipal government and local news as a reporter before moving to the universal copy-city desk, where I shaped and edited copy for print publication.

Downingtown/West Chester, Pennsylvania

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Journalism

Architecture

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, Cornell Glee Club Completed first year of studies toward BArch

High School Diploma, College Preparatory