Here are some specific examples of stories, video and slideshows I’ve overseen and/or executed in the past few years.
EDITING:
The Daily Meal
Assign and oversee the publication of 20-30 stories, slideshows, videos and recipes per day.
Signature franchises:
The Best Food and Drink in Every State (a monster year-end project I conceived and oversaw where we take all the national lists we generate each year and compile them into a state-by-state guide)
101 Best Pizzas in America (I can’t take credit for this one, but it is the site’s signature offering and is a lot of fun to put together every year. For the most recent edition we rolled out all 101 on Instagram stories, 10 a day for 10 days during National Pizza Month in October)
55 Things You Can Do to Fight Hunger in America (because no one should go hungry)
Taste of the brand:
The 18 Biggest Food Stories of 2018 (from the death of Anthony Bourdain to the silliest viral food stunts, we covered them all)
I Went to the Craziest Grocery Store in America, and This Is What I Found
The Greatest Food Debates of Our Generation (we had a lot of fun coming up with these)
Dear Alex Trebek: I Survived Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer, So I Am Proof That There Is Hope (I commissioned and edited this story, which went viral, in early March 2019)
Original video:
The pasta-making Nonna
“Nonna” Dora Marzovilla, who makes nearly 20 pounds of pasta daily at her son’s restaurant in NYC, on why she still loves coming to work every day at the age of 83.
The ultimate frozen pizza taste test
We tried 19 different pizzas, and some were much better than others.
This is how PEZ are made
Over 12 million PEZ candies are made every day at the factory in Orange, Connecticut. Here’s how they do it!
More videos here.
OMJ.com
Lead assigning editor (one of many hats!) so I conceived and assigned most of the more than 3,000 stories published on the site. Note: The site is no longer live but its Instagram lives on.
Notable exclusives:
‘Real Housewives’ star Kathy Wakile gives us an exclusive tour of her stunning new home
Closet Confessions: Kathy Wakile (cut-down video for social)
Sarah Jessica Parker works the shoe floor at the Short Hills Bloomingdale’s
‘RHONJ’ Dolores Catania: ‘Danielle Staub took my place’ on the first season
Taste of the brand:
Halsey to Kellyanne Conway: The most talked about New Jersey women of 2016
The 10 most romantic hotels in New Jersey
Yes, we ordered puppies on Uber
Get Lauren Conrad’s reverse French manicure without flying to LA
From malls to Costco: the best places in New Jersey to spot a celebrity
The 10 most popular Bergen County restaurants on Instagram you need to try
Influencer marketing:
If you haven’t tried cold fusion hair extensions yet, we can’t be friends
This mom is getting her groove back with Exhale Spa’s barre class
Yummy coffee calls for a pretty coffee bar
Hellomagazine.com
A few of the many original features I assigned and edited for the US launch of the international celebrity and lifestyle publication:
Want to marry a royal like Kate Middleton? 6 rules to finding your prince
Buckingham Palace: 240 bedrooms and an ATM (plus 7 more fascinating facts)
American royalty: A look at the Clintons, Trumps and Kardashians (President Kanye West doesn’t seem so farfetched now, does it?)
Reign, Maxima: Royal baby names are trending for 2016
InStyle.com
InStyle.com’s 20th anniversary: Conceived and top edited many of these packages including:
From the “Rachel” to the Wonderbra, Was 1994 the Best Style Year Ever?
InStyle’s Most Glamorous Celebrity Homes
2014 InStyle Social Media Awards (winner of 2014 Min Editorial & Design Awards Online Feature/Site)
TODAY.com
Highlights:
Special report: Homeschooling goes mainstream (lead editor on multipart series with web-only video, slideshow and stories, most of which have been archived)
Survey: 1 in 3 singles would choose food over sex (lead editor, helped conceive survey in coordination with Match.com, coordinated with marketing and broadcast)
Amanda Knox imagines life in prison with ‘letter to my unborn child’ (worked with her to polish and focus this essay, booked her and her sister for a web-only video with Carson Daly, an idea I conceived)
Editor: Anchor Jenna Wolfe’s TODAY parenting blog posts
At this modeling agency, ‘ugly’ is really beautiful (this story originally included a slideshow that generated more than 10 million page views in one day)
One of the biggest viral wins on my watch was this powerful story about a teenage girl with cancer being named an honorary CoverGirl. The Facebook link no longer exists, but the story got more than 800,000 likes and 18,000 shares on Facebook and helped helped TODAY.com win the EPPY award for social media that year.
Here are more of the kind of stories I assigned and edited at TODAY.com.
CourtTV.com (now TruTV.com)
Exclusive: In a series of articles at CourtTV.com, reporter Matt Bean (now EIC of Sunset Magazine) and I, working as his editor, exposed Miss Cleo’s psychics’ use of scripts. The story got national attention and after the stories were published the FBI launched an investigation of the company, which shut down about a year later. One of the original articles is here.
Journey to Terre Haute: From cradle to grave (a multimedia report but only text remains)
Hidden Traces: Cold cases that still haunt us (a series on the most fascinating cold cases, media and photos no longer available)
WRITING:
For the past 12+ years I have worked primarily as an editor but I’ve gotten a chance to write a few pieces myself:
The Daily Meal
I Drank Bone Broth Every Day for a Month and Here’s How It Went
I Ate Breakfast Every Meal for a Week and This Is What Happened
What 12 Celebrities Age 90 or More Love to Eat
UsWeekly.com
In early 2017, I filled in for their parenting & human interest editor while she was on maternity leave for a few weeks, assigning and editing content as well as reporting and writing a few pieces a day and working with the video team on several videos.
Pregnant Mom Decides to Carry Terminally Ill Baby to Term to Donate Her Organs: ‘Eva Will Have Life’
Video: Soldier Nearly Misses the Birth of His First Baby: Watch
You can read all my stories here.
InStyle.com:
An Open Letter to Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany from Her Fans at InStyle
Here’s How Petra Nemcova Keeps Her Glow Intact After a Long Flight
TODAY.com:
Michelle Obama wears $39.99 Jason Wu for Target dress
7 years, 579 dogs: One photographer’s labor of leashes
Jenna Bush Hager on ‘nerve-wracking, bittersweet’ return from maternity leave (ghostwriting)
The first time I watched TODAY: When Hugh Downs interviewed my dad (link takes some time to load). Here’s the video that is missing from the story (I obviously didn’t produce it but find it fascinating so am including).
The Hartford Courant:
Lead reporter for A-1 Sunday series on the closing of a 106-year-old General Motors plant in Bristol, Conn. Photographer Michael Kodas and I spent several months chronicling the closure of the plant on human and economic terms.
Plant Closing Tests Soul Of Bristol
And from my very first newspaper job, at the Stamford Advocate, one of my biggest coups:
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