Editor & Consultant, Independent Oct 2025 – Present

• Provide editorial consulting for brands and newsrooms, journalism training, and strategic guidance on newsroom organization, ethics, and best practices.

• Partner with creators, students, nonprofits, and non-traditional media organizations to strengthen editorial processes and content strategy.

• Edit articles, newsletters, social copy, scripts, book proposals and projects.

• Ghostwriting, content strategy

Executive Digital Director, Rolling Stone Oct 2021 – Oct 2025

• Oversaw daily news coverage and all digital operations across music, politics, TV/film, and culture verticals.

• Commissioned and developed acclaimed projects including “The DJ and the War Crimes”, nominated for Rolling Stone's first-ever Emmy Award.

• Led major website redesigns, including a full overhaul of social posts and newsletters to modernize the brand's digital presence.

• Developed and maintained high-value platform partnerships with Apple News, Reddit, and Flipboard.

• Tracked and optimized content performance using Google Analytics, Parsely, Semrush, and PMC systems.

• Built scalable content assignment, scheduling, and cross-team communication systems to improve operational efficiency.

Contributing Editor, The Fuller Project March 2021 – Oct 2021

• Assigned and edited articles and long-form projects focused on women's issues and underreported global stories.

• Authored weekly newsletter; collaborated with editorial and social teams on cohesive content strategy.

Managing Editor, News & Operations, The Markup Oct 2019 – Jun 2020

• Oversaw daily operations at nonprofit startup newsroom focused on consumer accountability journalism about technology's societal impact.

• Managed a cross-disciplinary team of reporters, developers, and editors to deliver high-quality, user-friendly reporting.

• Developed editorial integrity systems, audience development strategies, and investigative report workflows.

• Recruited, hired, and onboarded editorial staff from scratch at a new organization.

Global News Director, BuzzFeed News May 2013 – Jun 2019

• Built and led a 24/7 breaking news operation across New York, London, Washington D.C., Toronto, and Los Angeles.

• Managed a team of journalists spanning news, investigations, features, video, podcasts, and social strategy.

• Led a prize-winning team dedicated to covering disinformation and debunking viral misinformation.

• Oversaw launch of the BuzzFeed News app and created new content formats including breaking news templates and video explainers.

• Trained reporters and editors and supported the launch and operations of BuzzFeed News outlets in multiple countries.

• Hired and developed scores of reporters, editors, videographers, producers, and social media experts.

Senior Editor, The New York Times Jan 2000 – May 2013

• Spent 13+ years driving The New York Times’ transition from a print-first to a digital-first newsroom.

• Served in key leadership roles throughout the newsroom including Deputy Politics Editor, Deputy National Editor, and Deputy Culture Editor.

• Directed digital coverage of major local, national and international events, including multiple presidential elections, Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 11, and awards seasons.

• Pioneered use of live blogs, audio reports, video projects, acclaimed multimedia and graphics initiatives, social media integration, and other groundbreaking digital story formats.

• Managed reporters, web producers, homepage, live video, multimedia, and breaking news teams.

• Anchored a daily politics newsletter (2000–2002); contributed to multiple award-winning projects and in-house editorial franchises.

Assistant Politics Editor, The Austin Chronicle Sep 1996 – Aug 1999

• Assigned, edited, and wrote stories on local, state, and national government, plus culture and entertainment for a leading alternative weekly.

• Wrote and edited a weekly politics news column.

Reporter, The News Tribune Sep 1992 – Jan 1995

• Covered municipal and state government, crime, education, housing, enterprise, and human-interest stories for a mid-sized daily newspaper in central New Jersey.

EDUCATION
Rutgers University, BA, Political Science & Journalism

OTHER
English Teacher, WorldTeach Jan 1995 – Feb 1996
Taught English as a second language to adults and public school students in Grades K–4 in Las Vueltas, Costa Rica.

Volunteer, Food Bank of New York; Common Pantry, Badass Animal Rescue

Member, Online News Association; Newswomen’s Club