Experience

Boston Magazine

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Editor

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Self-Employed

• New York, NY

• Journalist, writer, editor, reporter, researcher

  • Sep 2013 - Present

  • Write deeply researched 5000-word podcast scripts for Double Elvis, creators of music/true-crime hit series, "Disgraceland.” • Bylines in New York, NPR.org, Bloomberg.com, Mental Floss, LA Weekly, Thrillist, Pitchfork, SPIN, self-titled and more. • Published cover profiles in Pitchfork, American Airlines' "American Way" and Virgin Atlantic's "Vera." • Contributed quick-turnaround music-playlist synopses, album blurbs, and short book reviews for Third Bridge Creative and its top-tier streaming-platform clients. • Real-time reported from Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential Election victory-night party for the Hollywood Reporter. Show less



The Free Store Project

• United States
• Philanthropy
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisory Board Member and Site Volunteer

  • Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Advise offshoot nonprofit and the Free Store Project's intensely creative founder. • Led all-volunteer team in transitioning an abandoned North Brooklyn portico from a DIY mutual-aid experiment to a self-sustaining 24/7 Free Store and ad hoc community center. • Advise offshoot nonprofit and the Free Store Project's intensely creative founder. • Led all-volunteer team in transitioning an abandoned North Brooklyn portico from a DIY mutual-aid experiment to a self-sustaining 24/7 Free Store and ad hoc community center.



Raw

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Consultant

  • Feb 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Lent story expertise and offered big-picture analysis to director-producer team behind "The Most Hated Man on the Internet." • Lent story expertise and offered big-picture analysis to director-producer team behind "The Most Hated Man on the Internet."



Billboard

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Contributing Editor

  • May 2016 - Feb 2020

  • Teamed up with executive and special projects editors to manage annual print franchises like Power 100, Women in Music, and Country Power Players for the world’s premiere music-business journal, fielding and editing massive influx of copy.• Worked in tandem with fact-checkers, in-house and freelance writers, as well as charts, design, and managing editorial departments, to produce cohesive, detail-driven, industry-leading special issues.• Co-edited 2019 Power 100 and New Power Generation list.• Interviewed 60+ executives for all power-player lists and regularly contributed short profiles (e.g. 40 Under 40, R&B/Hip-Hop, Dance, Latin, Indie, Branding, International). • Shaped and reported empathetic print packages on 2017 Las Vegas Route 91 massacre and 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting.• Wrote front-of-the-book items and profiles. Show less

• Senior Editor, Features

  • Sep 2014 - May 2016

  • Assigned, managed and edited feature-length profiles, reported stories, Q&As and special editorial packages for feature well of weekly print magazine. • Guided pieces from inception to visual execution to publication, collaborating with design, photography, managing editorial and digital staff at every step of the process. • Worked closely with in-house and freelance writers to produce crisp, accurate copy, editing for structure, flow, and clarity. • Drafted display copy and conceived sidebars. • Interviewed artists and wrote magazine pieces when scheduling allowed. Show less



Pitchfork

• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contributing Editor

  • May 2016 - Dec 2016

  • Edited features, essays, and front-of-the-book pieces for final two issues of the Conde Nast print quarterly, Pitchfork Review. • Worked closely with managing editor, staff and freelance writers. • Edited features, essays, and front-of-the-book pieces for final two issues of the Conde Nast print quarterly, Pitchfork Review. • Worked closely with managing editor, staff and freelance writers.



SPIN

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Editor

  • Jan 2014 - Sep 2014

  • Edited and assigned longform music features. • Collaborated with staffers, freelancers, contributing editors, news team, and photo department to maintain all editorial operations of SPIN.com. • Teamed up with other senior and associate editors to steer, assign and edit critical lists. • Managed weekly editorial freelance budget and installed processes to streamline other administrative editorial tasks. • Broke real-time, on-the-ground national news on @SPIN's Twitter account. • Edited and assigned longform music features. • Collaborated with staffers, freelancers, contributing editors, news team, and photo department to maintain all editorial operations of SPIN.com. • Teamed up with other senior and associate editors to steer, assign and edit critical lists. • Managed weekly editorial freelance budget and installed processes to streamline other administrative editorial tasks. • Broke real-time, on-the-ground national news on @SPIN's Twitter account.



Gawker

• United States
• Online Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior staff writer

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Wrote, conceived, and reported original longform national stories. • Regularly contributed shorter pieces about culture, celebrity, news, true crime and politics to the major media site. • Investigated public figures and story tips under direction of editor in chief. • Scheduled and updated social accounts. • Wrote, conceived, and reported original longform national stories. • Regularly contributed shorter pieces about culture, celebrity, news, true crime and politics to the major media site. • Investigated public figures and story tips under direction of editor in chief. • Scheduled and updated social accounts.



Village Voice

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • Jan 2011 - Aug 2012

  • Pitched, reported, and wrote 10 cover stories for the nation’s oldest alternative newsweekly. • Discussed stories on WNYC, CBC, Reason.tv and more. • Contributed to daily music and news blogs. • Promoted to Staff Writer from Web Editor.

• Web Editor

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2010

  • Worked closely with editors, staff writers, photographers and freelance contributors to oversee all operations of VillageVoice.com. • Credited with the site’s then-most trafficked month to date. • Managed freelance payroll, mastered SEO, and built up social accounts. • Co-founded daily music blog, Sound of the City. • Wrote for print and online properties regularly.



Various publications & books

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editorial Contributor

  • 2004 - 2012

  • Wrote the foreword to Dan Cronin's "Gathering of the Juggalos" (Prestel, 2013) • Contributor, Time Out Guidebook, New York (2008) • Contributor, Time Out Guidebook, Boston (2006). • Co-author and editor of "Kaiju Big Battel: A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters (Hyperion, 2004)," a satirical handbook to a B-movie-inspired fictional-creature wrestling universe. • Wrote the foreword to Dan Cronin's "Gathering of the Juggalos" (Prestel, 2013) • Contributor, Time Out Guidebook, New York (2008) • Contributor, Time Out Guidebook, Boston (2006). • Co-author and editor of "Kaiju Big Battel: A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters (Hyperion, 2004)," a satirical handbook to a B-movie-inspired fictional-creature wrestling universe.



Boston Phoenix

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • Jan 2002 - Dec 2006

  • Reported, researched, and wrote 25 magazine-length features for Boston’s then-largest newsweekly, including five cover stories in 2006. • Covered mid-'00s protest movement, including the 2004 RNC and DNC, and the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts. • Contributed front-of-the-book items weekly. • Wrote weekly local-personality column “ID Check” from 2005 to 2006. • Five-time winner of New England Press Association "Better Newspaper Contest," including two first place finishes. • Guested regularly on sister radio station WFNX-FM. • Co-managed music blog, On the Download. Show less