Employment

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Front-page news editor/producer, Yahoo!, New York, NY

Select and prioritize the day’s top news headlines for the Yahoo.com front page, seen by millions daily. Build front-page packages, including choosing and cutting photographs, writing headlines and teaser copy and copy editing others’ work. Coordinate with a wide spectrum of media partners to feature their stories on Yahoo.com. Collaborate with in-house bloggers and news providers to ensure that landing pages provide the best possible user experience

Freelance journalist and Web content expert

Articles published in The Washington Post, Baltimore Magazine, the Binghamton University Research Magazine, the Albany Times Union, AmericanHeritage.com and others. Web content, information architecture and usability contractor for the Church Pension Group, which provides insurance, pension and retirement tools and some human resources services to the Episcopal Church in America. Trade coverage of the souvenir and gifts industry and corporate market research for Souvenirs, Gifts and Novelties magazine and Candace Bennett and Associates marketing firm.

Online News Producer, AOL.com

Created multimedia packages for news page with more than 1 billion page views per month. Selected and posted articles, video and photos using Dynapub CMS. Wrote summaries, headlines and narrative slide show captions. Copy edited. Coordinated with media providers. Friday and Saturday main news editor. Tapped for committee examining better SEO in daily stories

General Assignment Reporter, Albany Times Union

Covered breaking news and in-depth trend stories for 125,000-circulation daily paper. Previously covered courts and suburbs. On investigative team that produced paper's first cross-platform project for print, television and the Web, a New York Associated Press top investigative work of the year. Created a young reporters committee and compiled report on serving young readers.

North Central Reporter, San Antonio Express-News

Covered eight municipalities and four school districts for the paper's largest weekly suburban section, plus breaking suburban news for 250,000-circulation paper.

Education/GA Reporter, Salisbury Daily Times

Covered education issues in three counties, plus Sunday cops and features for largest daily newspaper on Maryland's Eastern Shore, circulation 35,000.

Education

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Studied human-computer interaction/new media for a master's degree in communication. Focused on challenges of moving print media and non-fiction storytelling online. Researched election ballot digital analysis through an assistantship funded by the National Science Foundation.

The George Washington University

Bachelor of Arts degree in history, minor in journalism. Spring 1997 studied Hebrew and the history and current events of the Middle East at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

Nieman Narrative Conference, Harvard University

Awarded graduate student fellowship to attend.

Basic Legal Affairs Reporting for Journalists, National Judicial College

Among 30 reporters in intensive course the court system, records access, sourcing and ethics.

Knight Center for Specialized Journalism

Attended week-long course, "Cities, Suburbs and Beyond."

Young Journalists Program, Finland

Awarded a month-long fellowship to study journalism, Finnish history and European affairs.