Marcella Veneziale

Website: http://marcellafv.pressfolios.com/
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Professional Experience

Marcella Veneziale is a writer and editor specializing in food. She's been on the editorial staff of Nation's Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality for six years, focusing on 360-degree coverage of the restaurant industry. She additionally writes and edits on a freelance basis. Marcella has experience as an independent writer covering food and restaurants in New York. She also writes a home-cooking blog called Cooking for D. Marcella has a Master of Arts from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Vassar. She is certified by the American Copy Editors Society. In her free time, Marcella enjoys traveling, reading, yoga and obsessing over cats.

Expertise

Editor
7 Years
Writer
9 Years
Copy Editor
4 Years

Specialty

Food
6 Years
Business (general)
7 Years
Arts & Humanities
9 Years

Industries


Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
7 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
2 Years
Online/new media
7 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

9 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Long Island Wins (1-2), American Libraries (1-2), Sojourners (1-2), Library Journal (1-2), The Villager (1-2), Parenting (3-5), City Limits (1-2), Chelsea Now (3-5), Art + Auction (3-5), Flavorpill (6-10)

Other Work History

• Staff editor for six years at Nation's Restaurant News • Staff editor for one year at Area Development

Foreign Language Skills

Native English speaker, fluent in Italian

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office, Photoshop, InDesign, Omniture, Chartbeat, Hootsuite, Drupal CMS, Alfresco CMS

References

Available upon request

Awards

• Winner, Best B-to-B Website, Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards, Restaurant-Hospitality.com, December 2013 • Winner, Best Website, Jesse H. Neal Awards, Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN.com), March 2013

Associations

Online News Association

Showcase

General

How immigration laws impact the restaurant industry
(Nation's Restaurant News 3/23/2017)
In this ongoing in-depth investigation, NRN looks at how the current political environment could affect immigration and what it means for restaurant operators. Marcella Veneziale breaks down key immigration laws and how they impact restaurant operators.
Salt & Straw builds a cult following while putting employees first
(Nation's Restaurant News 3/17/2017)
Salt & Straw has built a cult following with handcrafted ice cream made from local and seasonal ingredients. Its culinary reputation is now closely followed by its progressive workplace policies.
Chloe Coscarelli, Samantha Wasser named restaurant industry power players
(Nation's Restaurant News 1/24/2017)
NRN presents The Power List 2017, its fourth annual list of the most powerful people in foodservice. Marcella Veneziale profiles the leaders of By Chloe, a vegan chain that's one of the hottest new restaurants in the industry.
Andy Puzder: A restaurant industry power player
(Nation's Restaurant News 1/24/2017)
NRN presents The Power List 2017, its fourth annual list of the most powerful people in foodservice. Marcella Veneziale profiles Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, and U.S. labor secretary nominee.
Dawn Sweeney, Cicely Simpson named restaurant industry leaders
(Nation's Restaurant News 1/24/2017)
NRN presents The Power List 2017, its fourth annual list of the most powerful people in foodservice. Marcella Veneziale profiles National Restaurant Association leaders Dawn Sweeney and Cicely Simpson.
Tips to navigate the third-party delivery world
(Nation's Restaurant News 10/27/2016)
Three leading restaurant operators — Mario Del Pero, co-founder and CEO of Mendocino Farms; Frank Klein, CEO of Asian Box; and Casey Taylor Patten, co-founder of Taylor Gourmet — explain the ins and outs of delivery.
Slideshow: A look at the leading third-party delivery players
(Nation's Restaurant News 4/25/2016)
Marcella Veneziale looks at how Postmates, DoorDash, OrderUp and other third-party providers are reshaping restaurant delivery.
Illinois restaurant chain’s staff gets an Army training perspective
(Nation's Restaurant News 12/6/2016)
Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse has taken a unique approach to developing employee camaraderie. The Moline, Ill.-based casual-dining chain partnered with the Iowa National Guard on a training program last spring that consisted of hands-on workshops and talks from service members on teamwork and leadership.
Meet the New York cabbie turned street preacher and homeless advocate
(Sojourners 8/1/2010)
Before breakfast on a snowy Friday, Philip Frabosilo preached in a booming voice to 30 men and women at St. Paul’s Soup Kitchen in Manhattan. Frabosilo, a large, mustachioed man in mismatched clothes, drives a yellow cab. But his passion is “Rolling for Jesus,” the one-man street ministry he operates from his taxi.
U.S. poet laureate W.S. Merwin inspires librarians
(American Libraries 11/24/2010)
Before assuming his post as U.S. Poet Laureate on October 25, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner W. S. Merwin met with a select group of librarians at New York City’s Poets House for an afternoon of reading and conversation. A nonprofit organization, Poets House hosted the event as part of “One City, Many Poems,” a discussion series—an offshoot of its library-oriented Poetry in the Branches program—that brings librarians and poets together for discussions on verse.
At Westbury Language Center, Grammar Lessons Tied to Career Ambitions
(Long Island Wins 4/13/2011)
The Westbury Language Center opened 10 years ago on Long Island and serves upwards of 300 predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrants. Meet the center's students and the teacher pushing them to gain fluency in English and improve their prospects in the U.S.
Pension Pressures Could Worsen Nurse Shortage
(City Limits 3/23/2009)
The possible exodus of nurses is an effect of the federal Pension Protection Act of 2006, which could lead to drastic cuts to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) pension plan. This has presented some of the union’s registered nurses with a tough choice: retire now, or risk losing up to half their pension funds.
Can twins share a crib?
(Parenting 8/1/2009)
You're already double-stocked with car seats and diapers—do your newborns need to come home to two cribs, too? Opinions differ. "Traditionally, parents felt twins would be more comfortable sleeping together," says Shelly Vaziri Flais, M.D., author of Raising Twins. "But for safety, they really should be split up."
Haunch of Venison gallery opens New York branch
(Art + Auction 8/29/2008)
The Christie’s-owned Haunch of Venison opens its New York branch on September 12 with “Abstract Expressionism—A World Elsewhere,” an ambitious show of more than 50 iconic works, none of which is for sale. “We thought an elegant way to announce our presence was to invite a distinguished curator like David Anfam to take a fresh look at quintessentially American subject matter,” says Robert Fitzpatrick, international managing director of the gallery, which also has locations in Berlin, London and Zurich.