Professional Experience
Award-winning arts journalist seeking positions that harness my love and expertise for diverse arts reporting. Earned three state-level awards as Arts Editor of a fast-paced New York City weekly.
Also a meticulous, detail-oriented, and experienced copy editor and proofreader with a long and successful record of editing and proofing 75+ book-length manuscripts and hundreds of articles, blog posts, web pages, e-mail newsletters, brochures and longer informative guides.
Expertise
Reporter
6 Years
Editor
9 Years
Copy Editor
9 Years
Specialty
Music
3 Years
Health
5 Years
Books & Literature
6 Years
Industries
Book Publishing Trade/B2B
9 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
3 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
5 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
6 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Strings magazine (10+), Acoustic Guitar magazine (3-5), Queens Chronicle newspaper (10+), NBC Universal\\\'s iVillage.com (10+)
Other Work History
Contributing Writer/Researcher, Raise The Child You’ve Got—Not The One You Want Published 2013
Book doctored/ghostwrote, conducted research to increase book’s marketability.
Contributing Writer/Researcher, Baby Debate Published 2012
Ghostwrote multiple sections, conducted research to increase book’s marketability.
Technical Skills
Nikon/Canon cameras, fluent in AP Style and Chicago Style
Foreign Language Skills
Basic Spanish
Computer Skills
InDesign, WordPress, BLOX, Avid Media Composer, iMovie, HTML, SEO, Google Analytics
Equipment
Nikon D7100
Awards
Third Place, Coverage in the Arts, Division 2, New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, March 2016
Third Place, Feature Photo, Division 3, New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, March 2016
