Tommy Barone Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

- Led opinion coverage of antisemitism and plagiarism controversies that ended Claudine Gay’s tenure; the Harvard Yard encampment; and Alan Garber’s ascension to the presidency.- Achieved record readership, including more than 750,000 reads for the three weeks of coverage of Gay’s resignation.- Led coverage that won the Editorial Board first in “Editorial/Opinion Writing” category from the Society of Professional Journalists’s annual Mark of Excellence Awards for collegiate journalism.- Edited, proofed, and fact-checked hundreds of pieces. Authored 30+ op-eds and staff editorials in 2.5 years on board.- Oversee team of more than 50 opinion writers and 11 editors, including setting agenda for and moderating thrice-weekly discussions for the production of staff editorials.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Wrote more than 20 articles, including two long-form data journalism pieces for ABC News data blog FiveThirtyEight and coverage of the first presidential debate, President Joe Biden’s decision to suspend his reelection campaign, the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the Republican National Convention, and Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension to the presidential nomination for ABC News Digital. Interviewed U.S. Representative Andy Kim and several senior Trump administration officials.

- Outreach and operations staff member for high-profile, first-of-its-kind national initiative to assemble a standardized, digitized dataset of zoning codes in every jurisdiction nationwide.- Launched network-wide communications system, helped onboard first 4 full-time national staff, contributed to development of outreach strategy, created database of contacts/affiliates, pitched for over $2 million in funding.

- Worked on research team designing, honing, analyzing, and cross-tabbing questions that investigated the meaning of well-being for young Americans aged 18-29 with regard to factors like mental health, work, etc.- Presented findings in press conference with national media organizations for publication in Politico, The Washington Post, CNN, etc.- Briefed President Biden's senior staff, including deputy chief of staff, 2024 campaign manager, and press secretary, ahead of 2024 campaign; also briefed MA state representatives, former Carter administration affiliates

New York, New York, United States

- Analyzed years of Murmuration’s polling data across several research efforts to unearth deeper insights on trends in the politics of U.S. education not identified in initial analysis efforts, reporting directly to Senior Vice President.- Wrote several clean, in-depth reports integrating summary of findings with original visualizations and nuanced political guidance for use by network of clients/partners and in-house data-science modelling and polling teams.- Worked with Political Director on incisive new survey questions to inform Murmuration’s next wave of polling.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Social Studies, Senior

Activities and Societies: Editorial chair of The Crimson; research director of the Harvard Public Opinion Project; team lead.

Law

Activities and Societies: Debate team president; secretary of Catalyst service organization; member of IDEALS Student DEI Committee.