Maressa Brown

New York, NY USA
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Professional Experience

I'm an online & print journalist with over a decade of professional experience writing, reporting, and editing women's lifestyle (e.g. health, love/sex, beauty/style), astrology, and pop culture content. I'm deeply invested in editing, creating, and promoting the highest quality, most visually engaging, dynamic content. Happy to bring my old-school reporting chops to work on quick news posts, originally reported features, or service pieces, I'm eager to pick up the phone and connect with the top expert or source for any given story. In fact, I maintain close working relationships with some of the most quoted experts in the women's health and psychology world, like Sara Gottfried, M.D., Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., Lissa Rankin, M.D. and Kristin Neff, Ph.D. My editor at Better Homes & Gardens once called me "comically optimistic." It's true -- I love what I do, and I bring my sunny, go-getter attitude to every assignment.

Expertise

Editor
10 Years
Reporter
13 Years
Writer
13 Years

Specialty

Entertainment
13 Years
Lifestyle
13 Years
Health
8 Years

Industries


Online/new media
6 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
10 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

13 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

CafeMom (10+), First for Women magazine (10+), AOL (6-10), Better Homes & Gardens (6-10), YourTango.com (6-10), Patch.com (1-2), Cosmopolitan.com (10+), Women's Health (1-2)

Computer Skills

SEO, Omniture, Chartbeat, Facebook Signal, Photoshop, CMS (Drupal, WordPress), InDesign

Showcase

Lifestyle

A round-up of Halloween costumes worn by 20-somethings.
An as-told-to piece about being valued in the professional world while opting out of motherhood.
An as-told to piece.
A Q&A with the creator of The Year of 52 Adventures.

Beauty

Health

15 slimming tricks to avoid holiday weight gain, culled from real women across the nation.
Researched and edited Dr. Lissa Rankin's ongoing OB/GYN Q&A column.
Fitness story on easy exercises that can prevent and relieve back pain.

Celebrity

Love/Sex/Relationships

Relationship news post.
A reflection on the advice Elizabeth Edwards left us on love, coping with infidelity, and more.