Experience
The Buffalo News. Buffalo, New York.
Reporter, 2002 - Present
- Suburban division, 2007 – Present. Features, news and front-page stories about the city and suburbs. Won Kiplinger Fellowship, spring 2008.
- Business section, 2005 – 2007. Applied human-interest approach to traditional subjects. Won scholarship to FACS-McCormick nonprofit reporting seminar, spring 2007.
- Features department, 2002-2005. Wrote stories about people, pop-culture and trends. For Gusto section: Restaurant reviews and happenings.
The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.
Kiplinger Digital Media Fellow, 2008
- Program in public affairs journalism. Won for Buffalo News project proposal about Buffalo’s foundations. Invited to present multimedia work at digital lab showcase. Published essay about experience in school magazine. Earned A’s in digital media and creative nonfiction classes.
- Selected by International Centre for Advancement of Journalism to train Ghanaian journalists in writing and editing in Accra, March.
- Won Center for Study and Teaching of Writing grant to extend fellowship to research, write and produce multimedia about teaching short, Internet-style literary journalism and storytelling.
Boston, 2001 – 2002
Sunday Globe. Freelance Correspondent.
- Neighborhood stories and features for Boston Globe’s
City Weekly section.
Boston University. Graduate Student.
- Courses: Essay writing, radio, narrative, modern literature with Saul Bellow.
- Edited the department newsletter, The Muckraker. Developed, recorded and mixed radio diaries for On Point show at WBUR.
- Final master’s project at www.bu.edu/com/jo/essayproject Won 2002 contest for essay about writing from Bookbuilders of Boston.
Maine, 1993 – 2001
Sun Journal, Sunday Writer. Lewiston,
1999 - 2001
- Promoted to master reporter, June 2001. Wrote features for front page, Sunday edition. Won: First place and second place feature awards from Maine Press Association for “Death of a Lineman” and “Jamaican Harvest” in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Davidoff scholarship for journalists, Writers Conference, Wesleyan University, June 2001. Fellowship to Courts and Media Seminar, National Judicial College, University of Nevada, June 2000.
Portland Press Herald, Reporter, 1998 - 1999
- Covered Brunswick-area towns, cops, courts, fisheries, Bowdoin College.
Times Record, Reporter. Brunswick,1993 - 1998
- News and features. Government, fisheries and rural towns. Manhattan reported feature: Honorable mention, Maine Press contest.
The Associated Press, Reporter. Portland, 1993
- Wrote, edited, supervised news report. Covered base closure hearings.
Redbook. New York City.
Associate Editor, 1991 - 1992
- Created pop-culture page -- Red Hot -- for magazine’s 1991 redesign. Wrote shorts about Native American
films, public access TV, Toni Morrison, fashion. Edited
and wrote human interest, celebrity, relationship and career features.
First Magazine. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Contributing Editor, 1992 - 1993
Assistant Editor, 1990 - 1991
Editorial Assistant, 1989 – 1990
- Wrote and edited trends, law, health, career stories for features department.
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