EMPLOYMENT

The Standard-Times and SouthCoastToday.com, New Bedford, MA

October 2013 - March 2016, Night Sports Editor

March 2016 - September 2016, Digital Sports Editor

September 2016 - December 2020, Digital Editor - News/Sports

Responsible for nightly production, editing, layout, headline writing and news judgement for seven-day-a-week sports section.
Write alternative-story format gamers, feature-heavy previews and in-depth longform pieces on stories as varied as boxing gyms, sailing, baseball umpire training and equestrian studies.
Write and edit Kuriosities, a sports and pop culture blog focused mainly on baseball, basketball, movies, television and sports media.
One of two main contributors to popular @SC_Varsity Twitter account, while also managing @SouthCoastToday and @BrendanKurieSCT (now @BrendanKurie)
Managed SouthCoastToday and SouthCoastVarsity Facebook and Instagram pages.
Created, managed and contributed to Standard-Times Podcast Network, which at its peak had more than a dozen regular shows and hundreds of episodes.
Created hundreds of videos for SouthCoastToday YouTube page, as well as consistently producing Facebook Live, Instagram Live and Periscope videos, as well as Instagram and Facebook Stories.
Wrote restaurant and television reviews, produced a yearly SouthCoast 5-Star Dining Guide and covered about restaurant news.
Occassionally tasked with news editing, including serving as fill-in Sunday editor and covering breaking news when needed.

Faribault Daily News and Kenyon Leader, Faribault, MN

March 2011 – September 2013, Sports Editor

Responsible for six-day-a-week 6,300-circulation sports department including assigning stories, writing, photography, editing and layout.
Produce a two-page sports section for 1,500-circulation weekly paper.
Manage a staff of one sports reporter.
Run Sports section of faribault.com including shooting and posting video, polls and maintaining a blog, as well as contributing content to the Faribault Sports Network. Created sports department's Facebook page and built @faribaultsports Twitter account from 150 followers to more than 1,000 in 2.5 years.
Also tasked with editing local content in news section each night and working with News Editor on design and headline writing.

Douglas Budget and Glenrock Independent, Wyoming

May 2008 – March 2011, Editor

Responsible for editorial content of two weekly newspapers with combined circulation of 5,600.
Managed and directed staff of three to five reporters, including hiring and training.
Responsible for layout, editing, assignments and determining news priority for both papers.
Implemented changes to website and addition of new media (Facebook, Twitter) that doubled page views within two years.
Introduced new ad revenue ideas, such as sponsored banners for championship games.

March 2007 – March 2011, Sports Reporter

Solely responsible for sports section of both papers from inception to completion.
Developed all story ideas, wrote all sports stories (gamers, features, previews, briefs, columns), took all pictures, wrote headlines, designed sports sections.
Sports covered include: football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, volleyball, swimming and diving, gymnastics, track and field, golf, hockey, soccer, rodeo, hunting, motocross, drag racing, shooting sports, skateboarding, demolition derby.
Also wrote hard news, features, columns, editorials and took photos for news side.

USATODAY.COM, Tyson's Corner, Virginia

May 2004 – August 2004, Sports Intern

Posted stories from USA Today, AP wire, GNS wire and columnists.
Wrote headlines, cut lines, briefs and “chatter”; chose, cropped and placed pictures from AP photo wire; created Day in Sports photo galleries, online polls and statistical charts.
Wrote Washington Redskins preview article for football page.

Valley News, West Lebanon, New Hampshire

May 2003 – August 2003, Sports Intern

EDUCATION

BA in Journalism, Ithaca College, graduated May 2005