WRITING EXPERIENCE

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Editor-in-Chief
FierceHealthcare
Washington, D.C.
2001-2018
Wrote, edited and managed online, e-newsletter, webinar and eBook content for FierceHealthcare.com, a B2B publisher serving leaders at hospitals and health systems, physician practices and health insurance companies. Hire, train and manage full-time staff and contract freelancers. Manage and post to social media accounts.

Senior Technology Editor
HealthLeaders Media
Danvers, MA
2005 - Present

Cover healthcare clinical and information technology and write general assignment stories for HealthLeaders magazine, a monthly business-to-business publication for healthcare executives. Develop technology story assignments for freelance reporters.

Write for HealthLeaders Media online, including a weekly technology opinion and analysis column. Manage the HealthLeaders Media social media platforms; responsible for developing the organization's social media strategy.

Write and project manage Breakthroughs, a sponsored multi-media report featuring in-depth case studies of healthcare organizations and a live roundtable discussion with c-suite leaders. Coordinate and manage editorial, marketing, and sales team member activity to ensure high quality and on-time delivery. Breakthroughs was the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors 2011 digital publication of the year.

Develop, manage, and moderate editorial webcasts and live events, including conference panel discussions and editorial roundtables. Project managed books from conception to publication.

Self-employed freelance writer
1998 - 2006

Researched and wrote news and feature articles for education newsletters and journals on issues such as school safety, education reform, and religion in public schools.

Wrote original fiction and nonfiction stories for a variety of media, including language arts textbooks and standardized math, science, and reading tests. Researched and wrote a nonfiction book on Celtic Mythology, published by Facts on File, Inc., in 2004.

Regional editor, MetroWest Daily News
Framingham, MA
1996 - 1998

As reporter, covered state and local education, politics, and government issues. Conducted interviews, wrote news, features, profiles and enterprise stories. As regional editor, hired, managed, and mentored staff of seven reporters and freelancers. Edited stories for clarity, content and style and wrote columns, editorials, news, and feature articles.

Reporter, Gloucester Daily Times
Gloucester, MA
1994 - 1996

Wrote news and breaking news stories, feature articles, and a weekly column. Shot news and feature photographs. Cultivated sources and generated story ideas. Member of staff that won the New England Newspaper Association's 1995 newspaper of the year.

Reporter, TAB newspapers
Needham, MA
1992 - 1994

Covered state and local news. Wrote cover stories that ran in multiple editions. Wrote a weekly column for the Cambridge TAB. Shot news and feature photographs. Received 1994 New England Press Association award in the business category for "unusual treatment of the usual gas price wars story."

Reporter, Melrose Free Press
Melrose, MA
1985 - 1988

Wrote news and feature stories. Shot news and feature photographs. Wrote and fact-checked obituaries and wedding announcements. Researched and wrote a weekly column on Melrose history, a playground roundup that included the week's dodgeball scores, and that staple of home-town newspapers, the police blotter.


EDUCATION

1992 B.S. in print journalism, Suffolk University, Boston.
1988 Associate degree in liberal arts and photography, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston.