Lindsay Gladu

Atlanta, GA USA
Website: http://www.lindsaygladu.com

Professional Experience

Lindsay Gladu is a freelance journalist who has written feature articles on award-winning artists of all mediums, 270-million-year-old fossilized predatory fish found in Idaho’s mountains and everything in between. She has a deep love for community journalism and a growing interest in digital news. In the past five years, she’s worked full time for two newspapers, The Newnan Times-Herald and The Jackson Hole News & Guide. Nowadays, she’s always on the lookout for a good story in metro Atlanta and pretty much lives for peach cobbler.

Expertise

Researcher
3 Years
Writer
7 Years
Reporter
4 Years

Specialty

Arts & Humanities
7 Years
Entertainment
4 Years
Lifestyle
7 Years

Industries


Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
7 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
4 Years
Online/new media
7 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

7 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Georgia Bulletin (6-10), Newnan Coweta Magazine (6-10), CNN (3-5), 85 South Out & About (1-2), Images West (1-2), The Interior Project (1-2)

Other Work History

Jackson Hole News&Guide Features Reporter September 2012 - May 2013 Newnan Times-Herald Features Reporter & Page Designer August 2010 - April 2012 The Washington Examiner Editorial Intern August 2008 - November 2008 National Journalism Center Intern August 2008 - November 2008 Clanton Advertiser Reporting Intern May 2008 - July 2008 Professional Outdoor Media Association Editorial Intern September 2006 - April 2007

Technical Skills

HTML, SEO, WordPress

Unions

Freelancer's Union

Computer Skills

Adobe InDesign, InCopy and Photoshop, NewsEditPro, QuarkXPress

References

Available upon request.

Associations

Society of Professional Journalists (Georgia Chapter), Media Bistro Avant Guild

Showcase

Newspapers

Best of the West
(Jackson Hole News&Guide 10/24/2012)
Feature on National Geographic's Greatest Photographs of the American West exhibit that opened simultaneously at 10 museums across the United States.
Free English classes give immigrants freedom, better opportunities
(Georgia Bulletin 8/15/2013)
Last year Catholic Charities Atlanta's English Literacy and Civics program improved the lives of 144 non-English speaking immigrants one syllable at a time.

Magazines

Painter's Process: Jim Wilcox talks about the 'pleasant struggle' of creating a canvas
(Images West 5/1/2013)
When Jim Wilcox needs to reflect on his work, he pops a chocolate into his mouth. He bites off half of the silver-dollar-sized morsel and as it melts, he's abel to slow down and see.
Coweta's nightlife offers a taste of the big city
(Newnan Coweta Magazine 7/1/2014)
In the not so distant past, Coweta County residents had to travel to Atlanta to sample some of the finer points of the culinary and libations world. Those days are over since the introduction of a handful of bars and restaurants in the area.
Newnan luthier strings together new business
(Newnan Coweta Magazine 5/1/2014)
In his basement shop in Newnan, Randy Bowers picks up the body of an ornately carved Fender Stratocaster lookalike. Purple-colored sawdust flies off the worktable as the luthier shows off the hunk of wood that gave life to his new career as a guitar craftsman.

Portfolio

More writing samples
(Various 10/1/2009)
Online portfolio of clips