RONI ROBBINS

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Marietta, Ga. 30068

770-***-****

ac2kwp@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Bringing 30 years of professional writing and editing experience to traditional news media and online publications while educating and enlightening local, national and international audiences. Media outlets include WebMD, New York Daily News, USA Today, Adweek, The Huffington Post and Forbes. Objective is to deliver quality written assignments to media and business clients.

WORK EXPERIENCE

McKissock Learning, blog.mckissock.com, blogger, October 2016-present

Write2Market, www.write2market.com,contract writer, November 2015-present

Industry Dive/Biopharma Dive, www.biopharmadive.com, freelance writer, August 2015-present

New York Daily News, www.nydailynews.com, stringer, May 2012-August 2015

WebMD, www.webmd.com, freelance writer, August 2014-February 2015

Mother Nature Network, www.mnn.com, freelance reporter, June 2010-March 2015

(stories picked up by MNN partners: huffingtonpost.com, forbes.com and cnn.com)

Fromthegrapevine.com (MNN publication), October 2014-March 2015

Adweek, www.adweek.com, contributor, August-September 2014

The Forward, www.forward.com, freelance reporter, September 2013

Skyword, www.skyword.com, freelance assignment for Popular Mechanics,

www.popularmechanics.com, May 2013 – July 2013

Demand Media, www.demandmedia.com, special real estate assignment for San Francisco

Chronicle, www.sfgate.com, July 2010-August 2010

Daily Report/American Lawyer Media (legal newspaper), freelance reporter, May 2006-June 2010

MOMeo Magazine, www.momeomagazine.com, writer/contributor, July 2009-February 2010

Atlanta Jewish Times, freelance reporter, February 2009-April 2009

Hadassah Magazine (national women’s magazine), freelance writer, June 2008-November 2008

Pink (national women’s magazine), freelance reporter, March 2005-October 2007

Atlanta Woman (magazine), freelance reporter, April 2002-July 2008

Arthritis Foundation, publishing department, proof-reader, February 2001

Atlanta Business Chronicle, freelance reporter, October 1999-June 2008

Atlanta Business Chronicle, health-care reporter, June 1998-October 1999

Atlanta Jewish Times, reporter, Jan. 1994 - June 1998; editor, 1996 Olympics edition; co-editor,

1998 bridal edition; co-editor, 1997 bar/bat mitzvah edition; business editor,

June 1997 - June 1998

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, freelance reporter, February 1995 - April 1997

Time magazine, researcher, August 1993

The Birmingham News, reporter, October 1990 - December 1993

The Florida Times-Union, freelance reporter, Food section, October 1990

Florida Today/USA Today, Melbourne, Fla., reporter, July 1987 - October 1990;

copy editor, August-November 1988; medical/health reporter, May-August 1988

The Gamecock (U.S.C. college newspaper), editor in chief, spring semester 1987

The Press and Banner (weekly newspaper), Abbeville, S.C., internship, summer 1986

South Carolina College News, stringer, 1985-86

The Gamecock, features editor, fall semester 1985; assistant features editor, spring semester 1985

The Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times, internship, summer 1985

ACHIEVEMENTS

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, quarter-finalist, historical fiction, 2009

American Jewish Press Association, Rockower Award, first place, comprehensive coverage, 1996

State Bar of Georgia, Silver Gavel Award for legal reporting, runner-up, 1995

American Jewish Press Association, Rockower Award, second place, investigative reporting, 1995

Alabama Associated Press newswriting award, first place, education reporting, 1992

Best of Gannett nominee, Gannett Newspapers, feature writing, December 1987, January 1988

South Carolina Press Association, runner-up, best news story, fall 1986

Edmund A. Ramsaur journalism scholarship, 1986 - 1987

Dean's Scholarship, USC College of Journalism, 1983 - 1986

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

The Atlanta Press Club, March 1995-present; membership committee, December 1996-December 1997

Georgia Writers Association, July 2007-2012

Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists (SDX/SPJ), 1984-1994

Magic City Writers (Birmingham, Ala., writers), 1992 - 1993

SDX/SPJ, vice president, USC student chapter, 1986

EDUCATION

University of South Carolina, B.A. in journalism, May 1987, news-editorial major, newspaper sequence; English minor, writing sequence; business minor, accounting sequence

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