San Francisco Assistant

JACKIE COHEN

**** **********, #* . *** *********, CA 94115 . 415-***-****.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Love to Know (San Francisco, CA) Editor present

Edit and write posts and feature stories for service-oriented blog network.

Create, enforce and analyze policies for search engine optimization and

traffic building. Recruit and manage growing team of telecommuting writers.

Collaborate with network of remote editors, designers and programmers.

Brainstorm new products. Employed as full-time contractor, paid on hourly

basis without benefits.

Bloomberg News (San Francisco, CA) Assignment Editor 2008 - 2009

Rapid-paced multitasking within the most deadline-intensive department of

real-time news service. Edit articles from all beats and global regions,

write headlines, craft media summaries and conduct surveillance of dozens

of competing news outlets on six screens. Close out daily coverage of the

Americas and hand over news to Asian editors at end of evening. Conduct

daily autopsies of reporters' performance.

The Bond Buyer (San Francisco, CA) West Coast Reporter 2005 - 2007

Covered state and local municipal finance for daily newspaper, with print

and online editions. Cultivated sources within government throughout the

west coast region and regularly broke stories ahead of mainstream news

outlets.

CBS MarketWatch (San Francisco, CA) Personal Finance Reporter 2004 -

2005

Generate creative ideas and write daily stories that make an impact, such

as a piece on rebate scams that resulted in federal legislation. Achieved a

following on a site with 9 million unique visitors. Promoted from

institutional investing beat to the most prominent section of the real-time

news site.

1 Consulting Editor (San Francisco, CA) 2001 - 2004

Clients included San Francisco Examiner, California, Paper, Ready Made,

Wired, Bay Guardian, Men's Edge, Revenue, Computerworld, InfoWorld, The

Storage Reporter, Stephenson Group, Net Clearly, Hawk Productions and Mad

River. Work included press releases, video scripts, white papers, marketing

collateral, catalog copy, annual reports and prospectuses for a wide

variety of corporate clients, Web sites, monthly magazines, weekly

publications and daily newspapers, with readerships ranging into the

millions.

The Industry Standard (San Francisco, CA) Senior Editor 1998 - 2001

Launched two new technology sections in print and online, generating

substantial new ad revenues, for the #1 Internet news weekly based on ad

sales at the time. Managed an editorial staff of 24; produced an average of

6,000 words of print copy per week and 1,000 words of online copy per day.

Edited a special report about Internet finance that won a gold medal from

the American Society of Business Press Editors.

American Banker (New York, NY) Editor-in-Chief, BTNi 1995 - 1998

Served as managing editor of Bank Technology News and the editor-in-chief

of Bank Technology News International, two B2B financial magazines with a

combined circulation of over 100,000. Promoted three times in three years

Grewa ad pages over 300% during tenure. Launched and produced BTN's

website. Worked on a comprehensive industry directory and major financial

conference.

New York Law Journal (New York, NY) Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief

1993 - 1994

Wrote index and edited the "Decision of the Day" for the #1 daily legal

newspaper in New York. Wrote obituaries, along with feature stories on

securing employment after law school. Managed 60 daily columnists;

scheduled content; trafficked copy; copyedited submissions.

Bedford, Freeman & Worth (New York, NY) Editorial Assistant 1992 - 1993

Copy edited college science textbooks for a major academic publisher.

Trafficked manuscripts and coordinated peer reviews.

EDUCATION

Completed coursework in fine art and design at the Art Institute of

Chicago.

2 Claremont University (Claremont, CA) MA in English 1992

3 Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) BA with Honors in English and

Classics 1991

Chief Editor of Muse, a campus creative journal,1988 - 1990.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PC and Mac proficient; MS Office; WordPerfect; PhotoShop; QuarkXPress;

ATEX; basic HTML and Dreamweaver; WordPress; proficient in content

management systems; fluent in Spanish; well-versed in the Associated Press

Stylebook and Chicago Manual of Style.

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