I am a teaching assistant professor and freelance multimedia journalist based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Although news reporting is my first love, I truly enjoy writing editorials, opinion pieces and first-person essays, a craft I’ve honed after years of reporting almost every beat, across media. Early in my career I was the only woman/person under 40 on an editorial board and it taught me how to thoughtfully be heard.
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My blog on Medium and newsletter Women of a Certain Rage were awarded first place in 2023 by the National Federation of Press Women. I am a freelance contractor for various outlets including The New York Times and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where I write book reviews.
I believe in the nuances of stories; the gray area between the shouting sides that so often get attention. To explore those gray areas in my own profession, I completed a one-year 10,000 mile journey to chronicle journalism in America, which earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Federation of Press Women, among others.
If my former newsrooms were people I would be attending many funerals. 2,500 newspapers in the United States have closed since 2005. The country will lose one-third of its newspapers by 2025.
