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Editor-in-Chief

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Editor, storyteller, creative, content consultant

Adweek/Adweek.com

Editor-at-Large

Promoted to editorial director in 2011 to manage all print and digital editorial functions including weekly print publication, Adweek.com, iPad app, daily newsletters, social media, original video production, podcasts and events and awards programs.
• Represent editorial team on CEO’s executive council along with Adweek’s publisher, svp of marketing/events and digital general manager.
• Set, tend and communicate Adweek’s annual editorial calendar and budget.
• Launched Adweek Arc Awards at Sundance Film Festival celebrating brand storytelling telling in 2017. Also created Adweek Project Isaac in 2013, an awards program celebrating invention in media,
advertising and marketing. Also launched the Watch Awards Web-video awards program in 2016.
• Developed and launched Brandshare, Adweek’s native advertising initiative in 2013.
• Initiate numerous content and marketing partnerships with Time Warner Global Media, Microsoft,
Bloomberg Media, Hearst, Nielsen, and RED.
• Regularly moderate high-level industry panels.
• Represent brand as a media industry expert with frequent television appearances.
• In 2014, Adweek earned Merit awards in four categories from the Society of Professional
Designers and two Webby official honoree awards in the magazine and tablet categories.

Editorial Director

Tapped by editorial director Michael Wolff to oversee the combination of Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek into the newly envisioned and redesigned Adweek and Adweek.com.
• Oversee entire staff of 36 reporters, editors and designers.
• Work closely with editorial director and managing editor on day-to-day news and coverage and
Adfreak blog posts online as well as weekly analysis, features, special reports and infographics in
the magazine.
• Collaborate with executive team on overall editorial mission, direction, staffing and budgets for
Adweek and Adweek.com.

Executive Editor

Mediaweek/Mediaweek.com

Promoted from News Editor to Executive Editor, managing 20 staff across Editorial, Photography and Creative, with a direct line report into the Editor-in-Chief/Associate Publisher.
• Spearheaded redesign and relaunch of Mediaweek.com in May 2008, introducing a variety of new functions and features. Won Neal Award finalist nomination for best use of video on a Web site in 2009.
• Initiated, assigned and edited all long-form features, including the coordination of design elements, charts and commissioned/stock photography.
• Edited and posted staff-generated Web pieces around the clock and print stories for the magazine’s weekly deadlines.

• Supervised all news coverage of the broadcast, cable, digital, magazine, newspaper, radio and
television industries for this leading media industry publication and sister Web site.
• Managed news team of 10 full-time reporters, plus freelancers in N.Y., L.A. and D.C.
• Collaborated closely with Photography and Art Directors on layouts, and design.
• Earned Neal Award finalist nomination in 2006 for news coverage of digital media measurement.

News Editor

• Initiated all breaking and weekly news coverage of the cable and satellite industries.
• Profiled highest-level media industry leaders and trends in feature assignments. Contributed to
special reports throughout the year.

Senior Editor

Cablevision Magazine

• Reported all news on the cable, satellite and digital media business for B-to-B magazine.
• Created and edited the magazine’s first Web site (cvmag.com).

Programming Editor

Broadcasting & Cable Magazine

• Covered the advertising and marketing beat.

Staff Writer

The Courier News

• Municipal and police beat reporter for Gannett-owned daily newspaper in central New Jersey

Reporter

I am an award-winning editor, manager and reporter with a Masters in Journalism and 20 plus years of experience developing best-in-class content for digital and print media. I am highly skilled at creative editorial packaging across multi-media platforms with a proven record for generating ideas that drive reader interest. My Core competencies include:
￼￼￼• Managing Staff • Defining Editorial Missions • Overseeing Budgets • Research/Reporting • Covering Media News • Storytelling • Interviewing Subjects• Establishing Partnerships • Directing Design/Photo

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