Real Estate High School

BETSY SCHIFFMAN

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EXPERIENCE:

FREELANCE EDITORIAL/COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Washington, D.C. December 2008 to Current Write freelance features and stories for several outlets including F orbes.com and R ealtor.com (2015 to current) Worked closely with subject matter experts to ghost write op eds, speeches, features and blog posts for I BM’s communications department. (2010 to 2014)

Covered breaking economics and business news for A OL DailyFinance. (2010) Copyedited retail market newsletters for K urt Salmon, a management consulting firm. (2008) One of two founding bloggers for S an Francisco Chronicle’ s real estate blog. (2008) WIRED.COM San Francisco, CA November 2007 November 2008 Staff Writer for Wired's award winning business blog. Wrote 1,000 to 2,000 words daily about the web, new media, advertising and video. Covered major news events, business trends as well as local (Silicon Valley) stories that frequently got picked up by mainstream media outlets. ASSOCIATED PRESS – New York, NY – November 2005 August 2007 Financial News Reporter. Covered spot technology financial news also contributed gadget reviews and feature length stories. Helped explain complex financial transactions in plain English. FREELANCE WRITER New York, NY October 2004 – October 2005 Contributed news stories, features and cover stories for several news outlets including the N ew York Sun, the N ew

York Post . Also researched/tracked client news for Bite Communications, a public relations firm wrote surveys for IAG (now part of N ielsen) that tested viewers’ recall of product placement in television programs. FORBES.COM New York, NY April 2000 October 2004 Staff Editor. Edited and wrote some of the highest traffic stories on the site including “Most Expensive Homes In America” and "Top Earning Dead Celebrities." Also covered technology and consumer goods. BRIDGE INFORMATION SYSTEMS San Francisco, CA – July 1999 April 2000 Reporter. Broke news on the Internet beat. Covered many of the biggest stories of the time, including the AOL Time Warner merger. Wrote two to three stories per day as well as a weekly column about the Internet. PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS Menlo Park, CA April 1998 June 1999 Editorial Assistant. Edited four chapters of "Technology Forecast," an annually published reference book. Compiled glossary from scratch worked with freelancers as well as external reviewers to make sure copy was accurate and delivered on time.

CLARINET COMMUNICATIONS San Jose, CA July 1997 March 1998 Associate Web Editor. Edited copy from foreign wire stories rewrote headlines and photo captions for ClariNet, the first online news provider.

QUFU TEACHER'S UNIVERSITY Shandong, China – August 1996 June 1997 First foreign teacher at university affiliated high school. Taught more than 800 students helped edit graduate students' papers lectured at neighboring schools. EDUCATION: BA (English Literature) Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Hong Kong International School (HKIS)

SKILLS: Web publishing, copyediting, copywriting, online marketing, basic understanding of 508 compliance, basic knowledge of SEO

LANGUAGE: Conversational in Mandarin Chinese.