Experience

The Virginia Mercury

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Energy & environment reporter

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Cover energy providers, the State Corporation Commission regulatory authority and environmental/wildlife matters with a statewide impact and an in-depth focus. Cover energy providers, the State Corporation Commission regulatory authority and environmental/wildlife matters with a statewide impact and an in-depth focus.



The Northern Virginia Daily

• State politics, crime and courts and Town of Strasburg reporter

  • Nov 2020 - Aug 2022

  Write pieces on session activity, legislative issues and candidate profiles involving local state delegation comprised by the current speaker of the house, house Republican whip and co-chair of the state Senate Republican Caucus. Maintain relationships with two sheriff’s offices, five police departments and two county fire and rescue departments to write feature stories on changing staffing, equipment, and law enforcement and fire and rescue efforts, while also covering the latest arrests and breaking news events. Document council action and inaction for Town of Strasburg through regular meeting coverage and articles on public initiatives, including town repairs, technology upgrades, staffing changes and events. Show less



Martin Rosol's, Inc.

• United States
• Food Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product packager

  • Mar 2020 - Nov 2020

  Package several differing kielbasa products and hot dog styles into vacuum sealed bags or boxes for grocery store and restaurant sales throughout the state. Coordinate with management and staff inventory needs and packaging priorities while preparing product deliveries. Accept shipments of various supplies and ingredients, and assist in all other operations of factory. Package several differing kielbasa products and hot dog styles into vacuum sealed bags or boxes for grocery store and restaurant sales throughout the state. Coordinate with management and staff inventory needs and packaging priorities while preparing product deliveries. Accept shipments of various supplies and ingredients, and assist in all other operations of factory.



New Britain Herald

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Crime, Courts and Breaking News Reporter

  • Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

  Met daily deadline for print and web editions writing stories on and taking pictures of crime and breaking news events, such as fires and car accidents, throughout New Britain and surrounding towns.Attended court appearances and interacted with court officials daily at New Britain courthouse and courthouses around the state to write stories on criminal and civil judicial proceedings.Identify trends in crime and other breaking events, while building relationships with community insiders and using Freedom of Information Act requests to write more insightful, enterprising pieces impacting the area.Consistently used Twitter and published stories to the web throughout the day as news happens to constantly keep readers informed, and generate internet traffic.Trained and provided guidance for new writers on assignment angles, source selection and content management systems and assist with general assignment stories on government, education and business topics. Show less

• Berlin Reporter/Copy Editor

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2019

  Covered the town of Berlin, a rural-like town of about 20,000 people across approximately 26 square miles, for government, education, business, art and human interest stories.Covered elections with candidate profiles and live voting results; attended board and commission meetings; developed sources within town to maintain insight and pulse of residents’ beliefs and questions.Provided enterprise pieces, and additional support for crime, government, education, business and arts beats for New Britain, five other coverage towns and advertorial pieces.Laid out local section of four to eight pages up to three days a week, including weekends; attended editorial budget meetings; posted stories to the web; and coordinated last minute advertisements with production.Trained and provided guidance for copy editors on layout, content management systems, story priorities and deadlines. Show less

• General Assignment Reporter/Copy Editor

  • Aug 2016 - Nov 2016

  Split role of general assignment reporting for one to four days of a work week and copy editing for one to three days of the week



Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility

• Communications Associate

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2016

  Increased social media presence nearly 50 percent to 50.7K members by managing organization’s accounts across several platforms. Increased reader time spent on organization’s blog by 148 percent through management of editorial process. Contributed to redesign and maintenance of a 50-plus page WordPress website with over 160,000 monthly unique pageviews, including a state map page of legislative issues, and coordination with marketing consultants. Reported on weekly, monthly and annual social media metrics while helping account for roughly $3 million budget for communications and educational departments. Mentored five staff members (two cross-department). Responsibility.org blog on Halloween college drinking awareness, October 2015: http://responsibility.org/blog/for-ncaaw-remember-parents-youre-not-done-yet-2/ Responsibility.org National Advisory Board announcement blog, March 2015: http://responsibility.org/uncategorized/%E2%80%98ask-doctor-g%E2%80%99-joins-responsibility-org-national-advisory-board/ Responsibility.org "In the News" updates, June 2014 to June 2016: http://responsibility.org/category/in-the-news/ Show less



The Informer

• Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor-in-Chief

  • May 2012 - May 2013

  Oversaw all aspects of 8-12 page student-run, weekly newspaper, overseeing work of section editors, including the managing, News, Campus Life & Culture (Entertainment) and Sports editors; business manager, art director, copy chief, IT director and distribution manager. Conducted two weekly editorial board meetings to determine size, format and organization of weekly paper, while reviewing, criticizing and improving story content of print publications and online material. Functioned as business manager, tracking income and expenses; maintaining revenue stream; meeting agreed budget quota; and seeking out and attaining advertisements from local business for publication. Wrote weekly op-eds on national, regional and university affairs; designed front page articles, pictures and graphics using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; managed Twitter and Facebook accounts; and supplied other content as needed for both print and online versions. Show less



The Hartford Courant

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Sports Intern

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

  Assisted in completing daily agate by taking local high school scores over the phone, researching area college scores and copy editing. Covered local high school football game and local high school field hockey playoff game without any experience covering such sports and at such a level prior. Assisted in completing daily agate by taking local high school scores over the phone, researching area college scores and copy editing. Covered local high school football game and local high school field hockey playoff game without any experience covering such sports and at such a level prior.



Snack Media

• Australia
• Advertising Services

• Content Editor and Social Networking Intern

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2012

  While studying abroad, wrote blog posts outlining Team GB and women's boxing success after 2012 Olympics on boxingfancast.com, and services offered by Snack Media relating to social media trends. Researched multinational-based trading desks of top media, marketing and advertising conglomerates, in addition to Real Time Bidding (RTB) and Demand Side Platform (DSP) agencies' personnel, philosophy and U.K. contact information. Boxingfancast.com blog, August 2012: http://snacksports.com/sponsored-post-you-cant-stop-them-now/ Show less