Writing Samples
Digital Writer, Us Weekly (a360 Media)
As a digital staff writer for Us Weekly's digital team, I pitch and write daily celebrity, pop culture, and trending news stories and other evergreen features and galleries for the website. During weekend shifts, I source and write news stories, manage the daily content lineup, create social media copy, and edit drafts. I also build, input, and update drafts on the brand's CMS site.
As a digital staff writer for Us Weekly's digital team, I pitch and write daily celebrity, pop culture, and trending news stories and other evergreen features and galleries for the website. During weekend shifts, I source and write news stories, manage the daily content lineup, create social media copy, and edit drafts. I also build, input, and update drafts on the brand's CMS site.
Freelance Writer & Editor
As a freelance writer, I cover weekly lifestyle news and evergreen stories for various publications and websites, as well as creating and editing original pieces on my own lifestyle blog, linked below are a few of my freelance writing clips.
Associate Editor, Special Projects at BobVila.com (Acton Media)
As a freelance Associate Editor for BobVila.com and Acton Media's Special Projects team, I wrote and edited licensed partner guides, affiliate articles for Amazon, and original SEO-driven lead-gen content. In addition, I created and pitched original digital content that’s consistent with the home improvement site’s brand, as well as coordinated with freelancers to ensure all deadlines are met.
As a freelance Associate Editor for BobVila.com and Acton Media's Special Projects team, I wrote and edited licensed partner guides, affiliate articles for Amazon, and original SEO-driven lead-gen content. In addition, I created and pitched original digital content that’s consistent with the home improvement site’s brand, as well as coordinated with freelancers to ensure all deadlines are met.
Editorial Assistant and Assistant Editor at Adventure Media & Events
As an Editorial Assistant and an Assistant Editor at Adventure Media & Events, part of my duties included writing daily print and digital content for The Toy Insider, The Toy Book, and The Pop Insider, linked below are my clips from those sites.
As an Editorial Assistant and an Assistant Editor at Adventure Media & Events, part of my duties included writing daily print and digital content for The Toy Insider, The Toy Book, and The Pop Insider, linked below are my clips from those sites.
Freelance Web Producer at Interior Design
While serving as a Freelance Web Producer with Interior Design magazine, in addition to my daily responsibilities of assisting with web production, building and editing print and digital content on Sandow's custom CMS, I had the opportunity cover various news stories and project roundups, a few of which are linked below.
Digital Editorial Intern at Dr. Oz The Good Life and Good Housekeeping
Examples of my articles as an intern for Dr. Oz The Good Life can be found here.
For each article I pitched news articles, researched the subject, wrote the article, compiled images and links to any sources, built the article in Hearst's CMS system (MediaOS), and added inline links to other Dr. Oz digital stories.
Beginning May 2017, I began to assist the Good Housekeeping/ House Beautiful web team in an internship capacity. Samples of my articles written for their brands can be found here.
For each article I pitched news articles, researched the subject, wrote the article, compiled images and links to any sources, built the article in Hearst's CMS system (MediaOS), and added inline links to other Dr. Oz digital stories.
Beginning May 2017, I began to assist the Good Housekeeping/ House Beautiful web team in an internship capacity. Samples of my articles written for their brands can be found here.
Lifestyle Reporter for Elon University's The Pendulum
While a student at Elon University, I worked for the student-run campus newspaper to interview and write weekly features articles for the Style section. For each article, I interviewed expert subjects, wrote the article, and communicated any editing considerations with an editor while making sure each article is met on deadline in advance of the weekly issue.
College Tourist
While working as a Travel Writer and Student Ambassador for College Tourist, I wrote and produced bimonthly travel stories and created accompanying infographics.
Additional Clips
As a part of my Multimedia Journalism class at Elon University, I created a multimedia profile, first published on Medium, in May 2016.
Also in my Multimedia Journalism course while at Elon, I worked with a small group of my peers to create a multimedia journalism collaboration entitled "Checking the Other Box," which placed 16th in the Hearst Journalism Awards Team Reporting Multimedia News national competition. Below, are two of the article drafts I wrote to sit alongside infographics and on-camera interviews.
This is an In-Depth story that I wrote on the trend of social media activism while at Elon, as well. Visit my multimedia report.
This is a Personality Profile that I wrote on YouTube personality, HelloKaty, for my multimedia reporting blog.
This is a speech story I wrote following Jonathan Reckford's, CEO of Habitat for Humanity, speech at Elon University, October 28. Multimedia version available here.
This was a piece I wrote in November 2012 that was published in the "Old Newsboy's Edition" of the St. Louis Post Dispatch.