Matt Creamer

NEW YORK, NY USA
Website: http://mattcreamer.com
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Professional Experience

My decade as a journalist has taken me to Cuba and Alabama, to a debt-collection call center and an incinerator built to destroy chemical weapons and, perhaps most dangerously, inside some of Americas biggest PR and advertising agencies. I'm a business journalist but a versatile one, also capable of doing human-interest pieces and cultural criticism. I'm as handy with the quick-hit traffic-getter as with a considered deep dive.

Expertise

Editor
3 Years
Reporter
10 Years

Specialty

Arts & Humanities
4 Years
Business (general)
10 Years
Consumer Products
2 Years

Industries


Newspaper - National
2 Years
Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
7 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
2 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

10 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Advertising Age (10+), Hearst (1-2), Meredith Corp (1-2), Rodale (1-2), The Atlantic Wire (1-2), The Awl (1-2)

Technical Skills

HTML

Foreign Language Skills

Spanish

Computer Skills

OS 10, Windows, HTML, major CMSs, social media platforms

Equipment

Audio recorder

References

upon request

Awards

Society of American Business Editors and Writers: Best in Business, 2006, 2007, 2011

Associations

Freelancers Union

Showcase

General

An Unpublished Novelist's Week as Fake Cormac McCarthy
(The Atlantic Wire 1/31/2012)
It seemed improbable that Cormac McCarthy, author of "The Road," would join Twitter. But when an account claiming to be his and capturing his literary tone and touch popped up, a lot of people, including the novelist Margaret Atwood were fooled. I tracked down the man who faked out the digerati for this Q&A and ended up blowing up the internet, earning countless links and retweets from The New Yorker and Roger Ebert
Eat, Pray, Tube: Adrift on the Delaware
(The Awl 8/5/2011)
Tubing on the Delaware River, which separates New Jersey from Pennsylvania, is a strange experience. I captured it here for The Awl.