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Portland, Oregon

The Portland Business Journal is part of the American City Business Journals’ (ACBJ) chain of 40 multimedia companies specializing in local business news. It publishes a weekly newspaper and Web content at bizjournals.com/portland. Responsibilities include managing a staff of 12, assigning and editing stories for the weekly paper, moderating panels and representing the company at events.

Responsibilities include assigning, editing and writing news stories and blogs for the website; maintaining the homepage; managing the company’s social media strategy; and moderating panels at company events.Major Accomplishments:Led the Portland Business Journal to top-five rankings among ACBJ’s 40 local-market websites in terms of page views, click-throughs and unique visitors. Conceptualized and launched PDX BizPulse, the Business Journals’ first blog.Launched and execute Morning Call, a daily email that aggregates news from national and local media sources. Guided the Portland Business Journal through a complete redesign of the website.Regularly represent the company at conferences and as a guest contributor on local media outlets.

New York City

The Deal LLC is a financial media company with a focus on corporate mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, investment banking and private equity. It publishes a biweekly magazine, and a mix of subscription-only and free content at thedeal.com. Responsibilities included editing and writing posts for The Deal’s blog channels, hosting the video program “Inside The Deal,” and writing features for The Deal magazine. Conducted weekly video interviews with executives for the company’s online video channel. Programmed and moderated panels at company-sponsored conferences.Programmed and hosted hour-long webcasts.Regularly participated in strategy sessions to build readership and revenue.

New York City

Responsibilities included helping to develop a comprehensive communications strategy and emergency management plan for the three-campus, 18,000-student university; developing and maintaining media relationships; being on call to respond to campus emergencies; writing and editing the online employee newsletter Inside Fordham; hiring photographers for university events; and uploading news stories and press releases to Fordham.edu.Helped win approval for a controversial campus expansion.Helped develop marketing materials and generate media coverage for events.Contributed feature articles to the alumni magazine

Portland, Oregon

Oregon Business is a monthly magazine featuring articles on economic development trends and challenges, corporate best practices, executive profiles and other topics of interest to a diverse statewide business audience. Responsibilities included researching and writing features. Helped collect and manage data for annual proprietary surveys, which included lists of public and private companies, 50 young leaders to follow, and the 100 best companies to work for in Oregon.Active in a total editorial and graphic redesign.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Supervised news staff, and wrote and produced features for local and national broadcasts. Local host for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Ba, Broadcast Journalism

Education record

North Carolina, two years additional coursework in science (1993 – 1995)