Résumé

Skills

Adobe CS4, Web 2.0 technologies. Google Analytics (and almost all other products). Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Plus, including ads, sharing). PR/promotion. Basic French, some Spanish. Multimedia production. Photography. AP Style. Reporting. Editorial. Management. I’m generally within two degrees of separation from any media company in the U.S.A.

Experience

SUMMARY
Social media, traffic building ; online innovations at all of the below publications & entities. Current clients include; @NRDC, @WNYC, several smaller brands and startups. I did my master’s thesis in multiplatform brand strategies for legacy media companies attempting to embrace the digital era. (Kellogg/Medill)

Distill Media, Inc. Nov. 2010 – Present
Owner/Principal Partner

Towards the end of my time at PBS NewsHour I started taking on clients, notably the Natural Resources Defense Council, and outlining social media and editorial strategy for a number of brands across the United States and around the world. Currently, my staff and I are working with NRDC, its sister publication, OnEarth, and WNYC, the country’s biggest public radio station. We are actively (and aggressively) pursuing more clients across the media landscape to integrate social media into existing editorial routines.

Past projects have included social strategy for Al Jazeera English (in Doha) and the launch of their social media talk/news show, The Stream, in Washington, D.C.; a social media evaluation of Poynter Online and the launch of tech blog LAUNCH for internet pundit Jason Calacanis.

As of November 2011, Distill is based in New York.

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Feb. -Nov. 2010
Social Media
Developing comprehensive web strategy as first ever social media desk assistant. Goals included driving interaction and audience to a legacy broadcast outlet in a post-internet era. Partnerships & placement at sites ranging from @Newshour
Success stories & Stats: MediaShift | DC Media Makers || Speaker at CapitolBeat 2010; Brandeis, Medill Alumni Panels on social media conversion || Participant, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

WBEZ NewsDesk Oct. 2009-Feb.2010
Intern-Reporter
Reporting breaking news for morning and afternoon broadcasts; photography; blogging. Helped organized the first-ever WBEZ live chat during the Feb. 2 primaries attended by more than 1,000 unique visitors and featuring, among others, Gov. Pat Quinn.

Chicagoist.com Feb.-Oct. 2009
Politics, general reporter; photographer

The Molokai Times: Aug. 2007-July 2008
Reporter

Reporting beats: zoning, planning, development, legislature, environment
Digital photography, website management, design, multimedia creation, editing, live blogging
Radio: KMKK 102.3 FM news and Na Leo o Molokai, Molokai’s own local music show (creator); stringer, Hawaiian Public Radio, KAOI radio group. On-island stringer for Miami Herald, Maui News, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser
Advertising management for KMKK Molokai, Molokaitimes.com and The Molokai Times; Contract writer, organizer of successful bid to become state paper of record for the island of Molokai. Attended pre-bid conference as publisher’s designee.

The Chitown Daily News: 2007-2008
Intern-reporter covering the Chicago Transit Authority; Community journalist

Lake Geneva Regional News Summers 2005-06
Filled in for various reporters; features, photos. Copy editing.

Earthmatters: Friends of the Earth, UK: Spring 2006
Intern for green magazine; copyediting, fact-checking and website

Brandeis University newspapers: 2005-07
-The Brandeis Hoot, The Justice: series of food/wine columns, cultural events

Education

Northwestern University: Sept. 2008-2009
Medill School of Journalism
M.S.J. (Interactive Publishing, Urban Affairs reporting), Certificate in Media Management from Kellogg School of Management

Brandeis University: Jan. 2004- May 2007
B.A. American studies
Minors: Environmental Studies, Journalism, Film, Philosophy

Boston University: Jan.-May 2006
London Internship Program: Journalism

University of Stirling, Scotland: Sept.-Dec. 2003

Homewood-Flossmoor High School: Sept. 1999-May 2003

Oxford Advanced Studies Program: July 2001
Magdalen College, Oxford, England

Hobbies/Interests

Cooking, horseback riding, writing, reading, music, farm management, swimming, biking. Travel.