Publishing professional with background in the arts
Resume:
Julienne Marshall
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Summary
Freelance writer/researcher with extensive fact-checking and copy-editing experience for regional newspapers, national magazines, books, and a variety of specialized projects. Ability to synthesize experts’ opinions, in disparate fields, into readable and understandable general -interest articles. Detail-oriented, used to working on deadline, and ferreting out information.
Education
Barnard College, Columbia University - Bachelor of Arts
Emerson College Graduate School of Theatre Arts – One year towards Master of Arts
NYU, the Museum of Television and Radio (The Paley Center for Media), and MediaBistro - Writing Seminars for the stage and screen
Publishing/Writing Experience
Consumer Reports - Fact-checker, copy editor, proofreader for finance, health, and retirement special premium guides. Fact-checker for Consumer Reports on Health newsletter. Fact-checker, copy editor for Healthy Heart Guide.
Public Relations - Press Release writer for religious organizations, musicians
Boardroom Books - Editor, fact-checker, proofreader for health books.
ZagatSurvey - Fact-checker for country-wide restaurant guides and New York City shopping guides.
Off the Beaten Path, a Reader’s Digest travel book - Worked on revisions, published 2003 and 2009. Contributing writer for sites in certain states, editor and fact-checker for others.
www.styleandsense.com - Editor, fact-checker, proofreader for Web site start-up, geared to women over 40, working with Nancy A. Comer and Heidi Godoff.
Planning Magazine, publication of American Planning Association - Writer of article, “Whatever Happened to Ramapo?” published in December, 2003 issue. Chosen as one of 25 “outstanding articles that have been published in the past 25 years…Some of these articles were ahead of their time in identifying an important trend. Others encouraged nationwide discussion. And still others pushed the planning profession in a new direction.”
Gannett Newspapers (The Journal News), Rockland County - Reporter (Stringer), for the Rockland Section, covering local events and the “What’s in a Name” column on local history.
The New York Times Advertorials (prepared by Comer & Company Publishing, Inc.) - Head researcher and fact-checker, with light editing, on “Best of the Season” (seven years); “New York, It’s a Great College Town;” (and other “Great Places to Learn…” Supplements, four years); “Grand Tasting;” and “Long Island Fashion.”
Reader’s Digest New Choices - Fact-checker for feature service articles with baby-boomer demographic; contracted to write an article for “For Openers” section.
Condé Nast Traveler - Writer/Researcher
Wrote for monthly columns, “As Others See Us” and “Long Weekend.” Worked for editor-in-chief Harold Evans and editors Michael Shnayerson and Gully Wells. Researched/fact- checked articles by Pete Hamill, John Kenneth Galbraith and others.
Interview and Martha Stewart Living - Researcher/fact-checker.
New Hampshire Governor’s Conference - Speaker on travel writing.
Executive Travel - Business travel articles (U.K.), focusing on United States.
Play about Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill - Cowriter. Participant in Playwrights/Directors Unit of the Actors Studio, under the auspices of Estelle Parsons. Play directed by Gareth Hendee of the Shubert Organization
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