Experience

New York Newsday

• United States
• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sports columnist

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  Greater New York City Area Named by the Associated Press/New York Publishers Association as the top sports columnist in New York in 2016 and 2018 and 2020. Won top 10 national APSE award in 2018 for a production of a video on motherhood in the WNBA. Produce an issue-oriented sports column in that caters to sports fans who are tired of sports-talk radio style of coverage.

• Senior sports features/enterprise writer

  • Nov 2006 - Jan 2016

  Award-winning features writer. Profiled everyone from LeBron James to Eli Manning to the promoter of underground MMA fights in the Bronx. Won Long Island Press Club (Society of Professional Journalists) awards for profiles on Malcolm Brown, the Rutgers player whose hit paralyzed Eric LeGrand, and Islanders player John Tavares.

• NBA columnist

  • Jul 2000 - Oct 2006

  Point person on all NBA coverage with emphasis on Nets and Knicks. Wrote Sunday column on the league, feature stories from all over the country and columns from Madison Square Garden.



Newsday Media Group

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• General assignment sports writer/NBA writer

  • Jul 1998 - Jul 2000

  Newsday Swing person helping to cover NBA and NFL teams. Covered Knicks run to the 1999 NBA finals while seven months pregnant!

• Knicks beat writer

  • Jun 1995 - Jul 1998

  First woman to cover the Knicks for a New York newspaper. Wrote game stories, features and columns. Spent something like 150 nights a year in a Marriott.



The Record

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• New York City columnist

  • Feb 1994 - May 1995

  Covered New York City culture, politics and entertainment for suburban New Jersey newspaper. Column ran on the front page once a week. Reporting highlights included covering Rudolph Giuliani's city hall and Mario Cuomo's failed bid for re-election.

• Jets beat writer

  • Feb 1990 - Feb 1994

  First female reporter to cover a NFL team for a New York area newspaper.