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Christina Schweighofer

Christina Schweighofer

1252 N Mar Vista Ave Pasadena, CA 91104

https://www.chswriter.com/

30 Years Experience

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Professional Experience

I am a nonfiction ghostwriter and journalist. My personality profiles and features for newspapers and university publications have won three Los Angeles Press Club awards. Ghostwriting specialties include memoirs, autobiographies, business stories.

Expertise

  • Editor 30 Years
  • Reporter 30 Years
  • Writer 30 Years

Specialty

  • Law 6 Years
  • Environment & Nature 9 Years
  • Books & Literature 28 Years

Industries

  • Newspaper - National 8 Years
  • Academia - all 10 Years
  • Book publishing - all 2 Years

Media Client List (# Assignments Last 2 Yrs)

  • USC Law School(10+)
  • Claremont McKenna College(10+)

Other work history

For eight years, I was an on-staff reporter and editor for Die Presse in Vienna where I spent four years with the weekly arts and features supplement, three of them as editor of the book reviews section; one year on the foreign desk; three years on the national desk, covering Austrian politics in general and women's affairs in particular.

Foreign Language Skills

Raised bilingually, I am fluent in English and German.

Equipment

Laptop, digital camera

Work permits & visas

Permanent U.S. resident; British citizenship and Austrian citizenship, i.e. free to travel and work in all countries of the European Union and the UK

References

Anne Bergman (USC Law School); Gilien Silsby (Claremont McKenna College); Kevin J. Moore (private law firm); Andrea J. Simpson (editing client)

Awards

Two second and one third-place award in the Los Angeles Press Club's journalism awards (2005, 2013, 2016)

Associations

ASJA, Los Angeles Press Club, Independent Writers of Southern California

Religion

Common Ground

(Pasadena Weekly 5/23/2013)

A conference in Pasadena, California, tries to find consensus between faith and science.

Appeal to Disobedience

(Pasadena Weekly 8/1/2013)

News story about a reformist Roman Catholic priest from Austria, Helmut Schueller, who was barred from speaking in a Catholic parish in Boston and visited Los Angeles

Profiles

Racing the Dream

(USC Trojan Family magazine 4/1/2013)

He's all about speed -- and driven: profile of Edward Loh, editor-in-chief of Motor Trend, published in USC Trojan Family magazine.

The Lives of Others

(USC Trojan Family magazine 7/1/2013)

A member of the Washington State Supreme Court, Sheryl Gordon McCloud is determined to protect the rights of the disenfranchised.