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| Professional/Personal Overview |
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I am a freelance writer and editor specializing in education writing. I write regularly for Teachers College’s alumni magazine TC Today and Scholastic Administrator, which nominated two of my 2012 stories for Neal and Folio Awards. I have more than 25 years of experience as a reporter and writer with journalistic credits ranging from The New Yorker's Goings on About Town section to stringing for U.S. News & World Report. I have published personal essays in Newsday, Family Fun and Smithsonian as well as more than a dozen short stories. For more than fifteen years, I have also been a regular writer for inhouse publications at corporate clients including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, American Express, Deloitte and Clairol. From 1997 until 2001, I was the editor and writer of Clairol's Beauty & Beyond Magazine. |
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| Work Info |
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Expertise |
| Writer, Internal Communications |
10 Years |
| Reporter |
26 Years |
| Writer |
26 Years |
Specialty |
| Consumer Products |
10 Years |
| Education |
10 Years |
| General reporter, wide range of subjects, both on staff and freelance |
25 Years |
Total Media Industry Experience
25 Years |
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
Scholastic Administrator (11+), Teacher's College Alumni Magazine (11+) |
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Bristol-Myers Squibb (11+) |
Other Work History
I'm trained as a journalist and after spending two years as a reporter in Anniston, Alabama, and receiving a masters degree from Columbia School of Journalism, I freelanced in New York City from 1991 to 1997 for a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Family Fun, Family.Com, the New York Law Journal, Black Enterprise, Barnard Alumnae Magazine, Working Woman and Women's Wire. My essays appeared in Newsday, Family Fun and Smithsonian. |
Computer Skills
Word, Excel. |
Equipment
Have laptop, recording devices, downtown office, notepads, sharpened pencils, pens. Ready to go. |
Foreign Language Skills
Serviceable (conversational) french. |
References
On request. |
Awards
In 1984, while working as a beat reporter at the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, I shared an Associated Press First Place award in the category of news features. Scholastic nominated two of my 2012 stories for Neal and Folio Awards. |
Other
I graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1984 with a bachelors degree in History & Literature and received a masters degree from Columbia School of Journalism in 1988.
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Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I have a driver's license. |
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| Work Samples |
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Please find samples of my corporate and journalistic writing, as well as my blog and published fiction at www.sapersink.com.
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Journalism |
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(Scholastic Administrator)
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(Scholastic Administrator)
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Corporate |
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(XMA Program, Teachers College)
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