Professional/Personal Overview
Seasoned food and travel journalist with great online chops (web site--www.lauraweissauthor.com and blog-www.foodandthings.com). Credits include: New York Times, Daily News, Travel + Leisure, InteriorDesign.net, FoodNetwork.com, FineLiving.com, AOL Travel, Edible Brooklyn, Edible East End, Nation's Restaurant News, TIME's school edition, and many others. Served as AOL director overseeing entertainment content partnerships. Blog for Huffington Post. Editor, Zagat Guide to Long Island Restaurants. Author, Ice Cream: A World History (Reaktion Books/Univ of Chicago Press, forthcoming.) Specialize in food, travel and lifestyle. Adept at online and print feature and hard news reporting/writing. Multimedia skills: HTML, Photoshop, online news writing/copy writing, Twitter, Facebook.
Work Info
Expertise
Content Editor (online)
10 Years
Reporter
10 Years
Writer
20 Years
Specialty
Food
5 Years
Lifestyle
5 Years
Travel
5 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
15 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
AOL Travel (6-10), Edible Brooklyn + East End (6-10), TimeforKids.com (6-10), Travel + Leisure (1-2), Zagat (1-2), Fineliving.com (1-2), FoodNetwork.com (1-2), InteriorDesign.com (1-2), Daily News (1-2), New York Times (1-2), Reaktion Books/U of Chic Press (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (1-2)
Other Work History
Reporter, Congressional Quarterly
Computer Skills
InDesign, HTML, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Windows XP, CMS, Twitter, Facebook. LinkedIn.
Technical Skills
InDesign, HTML, CMS, Photoshop, blogging platforms, e.g. Wordpress; videos.
Equipment
Digital Camera, audio recorder, video camera, laptop.
Foreign Language Skills
Spanish, French
Work Permits & Visas
US citizen
References
On request
Associations
Online News Association
Other
Certificate in baking, New School
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
(www.foodandthings.com , 1/1/2008)
This is my blog about food in NYC.
(NY Times, Daily News, etc. , 1/1/2007)
This is the portfolio of my print and online work.
Blogging
(Huffington Post , 1/1/2008)
I blog about food and society.
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
