Tara Merrill

Portland, OR USA
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Professional Experience

Eagle-eyed copy editor and proofreader with experience in newspapers, magazines, books and online content. Specialties include travel, food, beauty, health and education. Well acquainted with AP Stylebook and Chicago Manual of Style.

Expertise

Copy Editor
13 Years
Fact-Checker
7 Years
Other, Specify
13 Years

Specialty

Education
5 Years
Health
1 Year
Travel
4 Years

Industries


Newspaper - Local/Regional
7 Years
Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
2 Years
Online/new media
6 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

13 Years

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Away.com (10+), Laureate Education (10+), SouthComm Publishing (6-10), Keybridge Communications (3-5), Besins Healthcare Inc. (1-2)

Other Work History

"The Girlfriend's Guide Through Infertility," fact checker The Columbian newspaper, 4+ years Willamette Week, 1.5 years The Anchorage Daily News, 1.5 years

Foreign Language Skills

French

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office, Adobe InCopy, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Quark CopyDesk, Quark XPress, managing online content using Movable Type and Drupal, PDFpen

Equipment

Laptop, PDFpen, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat Pro

References

Available upon request

Awards

Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award, headline writing

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