Professional Experience
Smart, no-nonsense approach to your B2B or B2C SEO web content, newsletters, articles and marketing materials from award-winning financial/business journalist. Years of reporting/writing under extreme deadline pressure covering array of industries, the environment and health. http://goodwritingfast.com/ for more writing samples.
Expertise
Content Editor (online)
2 Years
Writer
21 Years
Social Media
4 Years
Specialty
Business (general)
14 Years
Consumer Products
5 Years
Finance
14 Years
Industries
Newspaper - Local/Regional
6 Years
Online/new media
14 Years
Wire Service
14 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
21 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
CNBC.com (1-2), National Real Estate Investor (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Web Full Circle (3-5), Johnson C. Smith University (1-2)
Other Work History
http://www.linkedin.com/in/goodwritingfast for complete details. Staff reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, contributing often to The Wall Street Journal (14 years); work republished on CNN.com, Nasdaq.com, Scottrade.com; staff reporter for local newspapers in Annapolis, Md., and State College, Pa. Editorial assistant for National Institutes of Health branch, where I edited scientists' manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals; magazine co-editor in college; sales experience.
Technical Skills
Website design (using WordPress, Microsoft Office Live), photo/video design and editing (GIMP, Animoto, Xtranormal, Picasa, MS Movie Maker, Photostory, YouTube); social media content (Twitter, Youtube, Facebook); steeped in AP Style.
Foreign Language Skills
Enough French and Italian to get by during travel.
Computer Skills
PC: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, GoogleDocs, Windows 7, Flash (rudimentary)
References
Happily provided on request.
Awards
"Best In Business" Award. Part of a team of Dow Jones writers that won national award for breaking news coverage from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), 2006. Coverage also won title as finalist, 2006 Deadline Club Award for spot news reporting (wire services), New York City chapter, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
Multiple Dow Jones Newswires' "Ace Awards," corporate cash awards recognizing important work on deadline.
Honorable Mention, Medical/Science Coverage, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, 1995.
Merit awards for work as editorial assistant at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Associations
Society of American Business Editors and Writers
