News Writer (freelance)

Granite State News Collaborative
New Hampshire statewide
August 2025 to present

At the moment, I write on contract for newsrooms seeking writers for content beyond their full-time staff. I connect with editors and publishers through the Granite State News Collaborative, a coalition of almost every newspaper in New Hampshire linking outlets to freelancers and allowing newsrooms to share articles between one another. My work via the Collaborative has thus far appeared in Business NH Magazine and The Business Journal, a quarterly magazine published by my past employer, The Keene Sentinel.

Skills: News writing and self-editing, scheduling meetings for interviews

Assistant Editor, NH Business Review (full-time)

Yankee Publishing, NH Group (formerly McLean Communications)
Manchester, New Hampshire and statewide
November 2023 to July 2025

In my role as one-third the staff of NH Business Review's editorial team, I covered topics predominantly relating to New Hampshire's seasonal and shopping economies, state politics, and concerns among small businesses like social media use and ongoing tariffs imposed by the federal government. Additionally, I participated in Yankee Publishing's self-hosted events representing the NH Business Review brand, in women's focused events and business award ceremonies.

My work also involved behind-the-scenes tasks in publishing our issue content online, compiling a database on businesses for NH Business Review's annual Book of Lists, and distributing an email newsletter up to three times per week recapping the morning's news headlines. Other work involved editing biographies of business executives and professionals selected for NH Business Review's yearly New Hampshire 200.

On the side, I wrote some content for 603 Diversity, a sister publication to NH Business Review, with stories focused on the LGBTQ+ community and on accessibility. In July 2025, internal restructuring meant that my role with Yankee Publishing and that of one of my colleagues would be cut, much to the dismay of my team, but I took it in stride as an opportunity to branch out into living in a different area and considering new pursuits.

Skills: News writing and editing, interviewing by phone/video conference or in-person, web content publication using WordPress, email distribution using Robly (an email marketing software program)

Business Reporter (full-time)

The Keene Sentinel
Keene, New Hampshire, and the surrounding Monadnock Region
May 2022 to October 2023

As my first experience working in New England, I was hired as The Keene Sentinel's first business reporter in four years—a prominent newsroom role in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond writing day-to-day news articles about local happenings, I also developed bigger picture economy-focused pieces most weekends relating to issues nationwide and how those connected with the Monadnock Region.

My favorite stories, however, were often the tales I told of area people of interest as part of The Sentinel's longtime Monadnock Profile series, whose author was a different journalist in the newsroom each week. There was also a rotation of which reporters worked weekends, so some Saturdays and Sundays, I was tasked with covering an event or other news for stories to be published in the following Monday issue.

At times, I was assigned emergency reporting duties that led to my most dramatic pieces. Those included covering a house fire live directly across from my own home in Keene, being among the first media witnesses to a fatal plane crash and resulting residential fire after an aircraft failed directly after takeoff from the local airport, and chronicling the disappearance of a man in a nearby town who was found deceased after an intensive search by authorities.

Skills: News writing, interviewing by phone/video conference or in-person, digital photography, web asset management using BLOX Digital (an online software program for news outlet websites)

News Reporter (part-time)

The Opelika-Auburn News
Opelika-Auburn area, Alabama
September 2021 to May 2022

Amid the fall and spring semesters of my senior year in college, I left the student newspaper to join the tiny staff of my university region's local newspaper, seeking more experience after wrapping up my summer internship. During this time, I covered the bulk of the paper's news on the city of Auburn and the university, comprising a population of around 100,000 residents and students.

The area and city of Auburn were growing exponentially in both number of residents and number of developments, a period reflected in my writing from the role. I attended many city council and planning board meetings as fresh residential and commercial projects were discussed and approved, or rejected. New business stories saw me share more details on small local business and larger corporate chains moving in, seeking the college population.

Two contentious series of stories I penned remind me of this time, one being a campaign for a new ward district requested by Auburn citizens to better represent the city's Black community. The other was a local mattress store whose public art mural welcoming visitors conflicted with local ordinance, leading to a clash with the city that had residents on the store's side. I used social media in local Facebook community groups to share my work, and in this case, it brought more attention to the mural situation, culminating in the city revising municipal ordinance to allow for more public art displays.

Skills: News writing, developing questions for interviewing by phone/video conference or in-person, digital photography, social media communication, web asset management using BLOX Digital, municipal and university meeting reporting

News Reporter (internship)

The Decatur Daily
Decatur-Morgan County area, Alabama
May 2021 to July 2021

Given a small cubicle in the Decatur Daily's newsroom like any full-time staffer, my work at the Decatur Daily in summer 2021 was my debut in local journalism outside of reporting and editing I had performed for my college's independent student-run newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman. And just as with the Daily's full-time staff, each week I interned saw me assigned a handful of stories.

The Daily is a newspaper representing the 10th largest city in Alabama and a metro area of roughly 160,000 people. My limited-time, yet bountiful portfolio over a few months included speaking with a World War II veteran who reached his 100th birthday, writing about a local company bringing innovation to crosswalk traffic signalization, and analyzing trends–like on the local fireworks economy as Independence Day neared, and on public school test scores.

In addition to pay by the newspaper, this position was supported by a student stipend from the Alabama Press Association.

Skills: News writing, developing questions for interviewing by phone/video conference or in-person, digital photography