Expertise:
Versatile writer who can communicate information and emotion with a variety of tools. Key skills include:
• Writing • Social/interactive media • Audio post-production • Nailing deadlines
• Blogging • Audio recording • Video post-production • Photography (still and video)
Highlights:
• Graduate of the University of Notre Dame, class of 2000.
• Byline has appeared in Pioneer Press Newspapers, Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, South Bend Tribune, Ottumwa Courier, and others.
• Original reporting has resulted in follow-up coverage by outlets such as Huffington Post Chicago, Capitol Fax, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Gawker.com and MSNBC.com, as well as Chicago television news outlets ABC 7, NBC 5, CBS 2 and Fox News Chicago.
• Pioneered my company's Web 2.0 strategy. Train and mentor reporters and editors about blogging, social networking and new media.
• Work blog, The News Peg, brings in thousands of page views per month.
• Created a weekly restaurant review column that was so popular it was moved from blog to print, as well.
Journalism awards:
• Honorable mention, Best In-Depth Reporting, 2009 Suburban Newspapers of America
• Honorable mention, Best News Reporting (single-story), 2009 Illinois Press Association
• First place, People’s Right to Know, 2008 Illinois Press Association
• Honorable mention, Best In-Depth Reporting, 2007 Suburban Newspapers of America
• Second place, Best Web Project, 2006 Illinois Press Association
• Third place, Best In-Depth Reporting, 2006 Suburban Newspapers of America
• First place, Best In-Depth Reporting, 2003 Suburban Newspapers of America
• Third place, Best News Series, 2003 Suburban Newspapers of America