Experience

Meadowlark Media

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Producer

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  • Setting news and guest agenda for top podcast The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz• Overseeing editorial for documentary episodes of new podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out• Producing regular segments with talent including Hank Azaria, Adam McKay and Ricky Williams• Executive-producing weekly "#BecauseMiami" news podcast with host Billy Corben• Advising Meadowlark Media on unscripted strategy and marketing

• Consulting Producer

  • Feb 2023 - Jul 2023



Rolling Stone

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Contributing Writer

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  • Write features and profiles on sports, health, style, business and social justice for magazine and website, including cover story on Stephen Curry and crime investigation in development with top streaming platform • Reported groundbreaking series on vaccine denial in the NBA honored by the New York Press Club Awards • Uncovered allegations of employee 'abuse' by Kanye West at Yeezy that led to Adidas internal investigation • Write features and profiles on sports, health, style, business and social justice for magazine and website, including cover story on Stephen Curry and crime investigation in development with top streaming platform • Reported groundbreaking series on vaccine denial in the NBA honored by the New York Press Club Awards • Uncovered allegations of employee 'abuse' by Kanye West at Yeezy that led to Adidas internal investigation



Self-employed

• Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Content Strategist

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2023

  • Recruited editorial talent to Sports Illustrated for The Arena Group • Launched newsletter platform for The Cool Down, environmental news and sustainable e-commerce startup • Embedded with menswear e-comm startup SEE/KNOW to build premium video franchises for IG & TikTok • Developed early-stage unscripted and scripted series for CAA Sports athletes via LaunchAngle agency • Recruited editorial talent to Sports Illustrated for The Arena Group • Launched newsletter platform for The Cool Down, environmental news and sustainable e-commerce startup • Embedded with menswear e-comm startup SEE/KNOW to build premium video franchises for IG & TikTok • Developed early-stage unscripted and scripted series for CAA Sports athletes via LaunchAngle agency



HarperCollins Publishers

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Author, CAN'T KNOCK THE HUSTLE

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2021

  • Wrote an acclaimed book, "CAN'T KNOCK THE HUSTLE: Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets' Superstars of Tomorrow," a chronicle of basketball's intersection with activism, race, politics, health, social media and the business of fame, by way of an historic year in sports • Embedded with Brooklyn Nets for 19 months, while investigating the NBA's 21st-century cultural influence • Conducted hundreds of interviews with Hall-of-Famers, All-Stars, owners, politicians and power-brokers • 80+ media appearances, including excerpts at ESPN and New York, plus original pieces at GQ and NBC Show less



Bleacher Report

• Spectator Sports
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Managing Editor

  • Oct 2017 - Aug 2019

  • Spearheaded original franchises, inventing multi-platform tentpoles in collaboration with 75+ staffers• Led unscripted series development with superstar athletes for revenue, brand, scale and licensing• Created B/REAL, two-time Edward R. Murrow Award-winning documentary series, with Carmelo Anthony• Oversaw #LargerThanLife, global World Cup installation at the intersection of street art, video and long-form• Edited THE B/R POWER 50, interactive issue declaring most influential people in the sports business• Executive-produced B/R x 4/20, award-winning mobile interactive video project on cannabis in sports Show less

• Director of Editorial Innovation & Special Projects

  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2017

  • Founding editor of B/R Mag, a startup digital magazine for long-form sports journalism and social/mobile storytelling • Built diverse, cross-functional team across editorial, social, design and product to create premium brand• Oversaw experiments in interactive packaging, first-person video, documentary, podcasting and animation• Evolved investigative coverage by assigning and editing definitive stories on domestic violence in the NFL, the national-anthem debate, mental health, police violence and the rise of the modern empowered athlete• Led teams honored 10 times by The Best American Sports Writing and nine times by the Associated Press Sports Editors Contest, as well as winners and finalists of Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards, Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting, Basketball Writers Association Best Writing and Football Writers Association of America Best Writing Show less



The Guardian

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Deputy Editor, US

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2016

  • Managed 75+ editors, reporters and producers as second in charge of second-fastest growing US digital news site• Coordinated US editorial, audience, video, product, partnership and interactive strategy across departments worldwide• Drove growth to 55M monthly unique visitors with focus on politics, technology, environment, voting rights, gun violence and gender equality• Established 24/7, mobile-first, award-winning live election product, an incubator for global newsletters• Led teams honored as winners of Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, Deadline Club Award for Digital Innovation, James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, Society of Professional Journalists Sunshine Award, Online Journalism Award for Topical Reporting, Webby Award for Best Individual Editorial Experience and National Headliner Award for Best in Show; nominee for News & Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches to Current News Coverage; finalist for Peabody Awards Show less

• Deputy Head of News, US

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2015

  • Managed 37 regular reporters and contributors, directing all US news and liaising with all Guardian desks• Edited award-winning coverage of all US police killings and investigation into torture by Chicago police

• Opinion Editor, US

  • Feb 2014 - Jan 2015

  • Oversaw all American op-eds and columns on politics, technology, culture, lifestyle, feminism and more• Re-launched the world's most diverse major-newspaper op-ed page, publishing 60% women and 17% PoC writers• Managed budgets, hiring and assignments for 14 new contract columnists and 100+ regular contributors• Partnered with The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on interactive policy-solutions project amid Ferguson protests



The New York Times

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Editor

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  • Led daily beta editorial content and talent recruitment on launch team for pioneering app NYT Opinion • Developed subscription strategy, liaising with Opinion desk, New Products team and Digital Design group • Assigned and edited op-eds on domestic and international politics, technology, science and business • Led daily beta editorial content and talent recruitment on launch team for pioneering app NYT Opinion • Developed subscription strategy, liaising with Opinion desk, New Products team and Digital Design group • Assigned and edited op-eds on domestic and international politics, technology, science and business



The Atlantic

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Deputy Editor

  • Nov 2012 - Jul 2013

  • Assigned and edited all breaking-news content for The Atlantic Wire, the web's most trusted social-news site • Managed eight full-time staff writers, two freelance reporters and three fellows across 24/7 newsroom • Assigned and edited all breaking-news content for The Atlantic Wire, the web's most trusted social-news site • Managed eight full-time staff writers, two freelance reporters and three fellows across 24/7 newsroom



Esquire magazine

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Director

  • Jul 2010 - Nov 2012

  • Oversaw all online editorial content and real-time brand management for the world's leading men's magazine• Created four new verticals (politics, style, culture, food & drink); launched and conducted all social media• National Magazine Award nominee, Magazine of the Year (2012); Multimedia (2010)

• Senior Web Editor

  • Oct 2008 - Jul 2010



Popular Mechanics Magazine

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Online Editor

  • May 2007 - Oct 2008

  • Oversaw all online editorial, tripling traffic with reported features on tech, science, transport and lifestyle• Overhauled web-print integration of staff and content that became model for Hearst Magazines• Hosted, produced, booked, wrote and edited weekly podcast, The Popular Mechanics Show

• Contributing Online Editor

  • Sep 2006 - May 2007