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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Freelance Journalist Writing articles specializing in green issues, healthcare and general business. Contributor to print and online publications including:
Bioterror Medical Alert Women's Health Management Cost Reengineering Report 1993 - Present
Editor and Columnist www.AFreshSqueeze.com: a Chicago web site providing news and ideas about living green in an urban environment. Site includes news about the local green economy and ways to engage in eco-friendly happenings in Chicago.
2009 - Present Adjunct Professor, Columbia College Chicago Instructor in the Journalism Department. Teaching Environmental Reporting: Green Issues and Urban Sustainability. Also teaching Reporting and Writing I, an intensive reporting and writing class that focuses on the basics of writing news copy and developing reporting and interviewing skills for multimedia platform, including print, online and broadcast.
2005 - Present Reporter, Modern Healthcare Magazine A Crain Communications weekly magazine, Chicago. Wrote articles on healthcare business targeted to hospital administrators, physicians and other healthcare professionals. Covered financial issues, investor-owned hospital chains, women's health and AIDS.
1988 - 1993 Contributing editor, Institutional Investor A monthly magazine published at the time by ABC/Capital Cities, New York City. Wrote monthly features of major money moves in the pension fund industry. Identified trends for investment managers.
1988 Managing editor, Money Management Letter, Institutional Investor, newsletter division Responsible for biweekly newsletter covering the pension fund industry that regularly broke news against the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other trade journals. Assigned stories to reporters, edited copy and wrote articles. Joined MML as a senior editor in May 1987.
1987-1988 Associate editor, Corporate Financing Week, Institutional Investor, newsletter division Reported on new financing techniques for corporate treasurers. Covered newest developments in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and leveraged buyouts, and new corporate issues in the domestic markets.
1986-1987 Freelance radio reporter and researcher, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Daybreak, current affairs radio program, Montreal, Canada. Reported on political and economic issues for morning show. Organized interviews for Daybreak with local politicians, analysts, and other newsmakers.
1986 Production assistant, American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. Summer 1985 internship
Research assistant, National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) WRC-TV, Washington, D.C. Spring 1983 internship
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EDUCATION Summer Institute Certificate, 2008 Green City: A Field Study in Chicago Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies Evanston, Illinois Master of Arts, 1985 Journalism and Public Affairs The American University Washington, D.C. Massey Fellowship Award for academic excellence Bachelor of Arts, 1984 American Culture Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York |