Writer, Editor

SIDONIE SAWYER

WRITER / EDITOR / BLOGGER

Cell phone 210-***-****

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Clips: https://www.huffpost.com/author/sidoniesawyer-565 LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/sidoniesawyer

Quick recap:

Multimedia journalist with 20+ years of experience in the fields of newspapers, magazines, digital, social media, websites, etc… Miami Herald: 10 years

Huffington Post: five years

Contributing: Dallas Observer, Miami New Times, Houston Chronicle, Broward Herald, Gulfshore Life Magazine, France Soir, the Chieftly, HuffPost Québec… and a few more

Professional experience.

-2023

Editor at McClatchy. Responsible for the front page headlines/print for 27 daily newspapers.

-Sept. 2021 to 2022:

Freelancer for various publications: Editor, text proofer, copy editor. Teacher at the University of Southern Mississippi.

-January 2017 to Sept. 2021:

C&S Magazine NYC. Freelance copy editor, online. City&State, a NYC political online publication.

Zengler News. Freelance copy editor, online.

-July 2017 to June 2019:

Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media. Head of Multimedia Journalism Dept. Teaching two classes: multimedia journalism and investigative reporting.

Students produced the story “Metro Mess” on the corruption of the city officers and workers: http://newsnet.iijnm.org/a-collective-underground- chaos/

IIJNM.org Bangalore (India).

-March 2013 to January 2017:

Huffington Post (HuffPost). Blogger. Weekly column on travel, art, and lifestyle/ features stories. Editor. About 300 clips are on my website

(sidonieclips.weebly.com).

Dallas Observer. Contributing arts writer.

TheMReport Magazine. Contributing finance writer.

-Aug. 2014 to October 2015:

NIMA start-up marketing agency. Senior Digital Content Writer, Centricity Magazine + six websites; content creator for multiple Facebook, Google, and Twitter accounts. Stories about life on the road and adventures.

-2011/2012

Air Force Research Institute - Associate Editor: Editor/translator/proofreader for a quarterly English/French magazine at AFRI (Dept. of Defense/Maxwell AFB). Security clearance obtained.

Previous experience.

2000-2010

The Miami Herald Newspaper (McClatchy Group), Miami, FL.

*Staff Writer: GA capacity for the Features Dept.

*Columnist, Producer, Creator, Writer, Photographer: The Biscayne Babble and Fashion RX weekly columns. Writing and taking my own photographs for a review column of events and happenings in the Biscayne Boulevard corridor of Miami. Covering stores, restaurants, theater, special events, community happenings, and neighborhood news.

*Editorial Specialist and Assistant to the Travel Editor: Sunday Travel Section.

*Calendar Editor: Daily recap of events.

*Copy Editor: Florida Events for three counties.

*Producer and Copy Editor: Cruise Calendar. Three times a year research and listing of all cruises departing from any ports of Florida. Working directly with the cruise line representatives, each story covered a newspaper-size double trunk.

Misc.

French Baccalaureat, English Major: Lycée Le Corbusier, Poissy-Paris, France Bachelor in English: Jussieu University, Paris VII, France. Studied anthropology, archaeology, and the origins of man, Tulane U., New Orleans.

Studied Mandarin Chinese, at Miami-Dade College. Trained and certified in AP style.

Global considerations

Born, raised and educated in Paris, France.

Lived in the USA since 1989. Dual French-American citizenships. World Traveler. Member of NATJA, PETA, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International.

Fluent in French and English, both at professional levels; basic Spanish.

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