writer/editor: business, environmental, real estate, health care
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RONI ROBBINS
Marietta, Ga. 30068
****.*******@*****.***
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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