Business Network Food Industry

Matthew Morrow

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Financial News Editor and Writer/Market Researcher Accomplished, competent and highly motivated professional with over 25 years of writing, editing and reporting in the financial services sector, as well as price reporting. SKILLS

News Writing ● Digital Media ● Market Research ● Protein Price Reporting ● Editing & Publishing ● Financial Report Writing ● Transportation Reporting ● Equity Research ● Capital Markets ● Team Building & Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

URNER BARRY PUBLICATIONS OCT 2021- MAY 2023

Market Researcher/Reporter/Writer

Urner Barry has provided benchmark quotations for proteins since 1858.

• Closely monitored market and industry trends for daily specific protein markets, including beef varieties (such as tails, tongues, hearts, tripe) and plant-based items. Provided backup coverage for boneless beef offerings.

• Interviewed various participants (including) packers, buyers, sellers, traders and processors) in the beef variety sector daily to assess market trends and sales, offers and bids on numerous offals items. Tracked pricing of beef varieties twice daily.

• Wrote weekly commentary on plant-based proteins, including pulses, soy and wheat and emerging proteins, as well as provided a highlight on companies connected to the evolving plant-based protein industry.

• Published trucking and logistics articles, as well as wrote two articles quarterly for a magazine.

• Maintained existing and generated new industry contacts in the beef varieties and plant-based sectors.

THE FOOD INSTITUTE LLC OCT 2020-DEC 2020

Content Manager/Senior Writer

The Food Institute LLC delivers reliable news and insight on the global food industry.

● Managed the content direction of The Food Institute newsletters and Food Institute Report. Led a team of business writers and freelancers and assisted in bringing editorial leadership to the company.

● Wrote insightful articles and research reports focused on major food industry trends. Assisted in developing the firm’s financial content as a major contributor of news related to public and private food industry companies across various sectors (e.g., foodservice, food retail, and food manufacturing).

FOX BUSINESS AUG 2017-SEPT 2020

Assignment Editor

Fox Business Network is an American cable and satellite business news television channel owned by 21st Century Fox.

Matthew Morrow

Linkedin.com/in/matthewwmorrow

31 Roger Avenue, Cranford, NJ 07016

908-***-****, adxyy0@r.postjobfree.com

● Worked as liaison between Fox Business programs and reporters on air and their producers to pinpoint specific times when the reporters would go live on those respective programs.

● Approved requests for Fox News reporters from Fox Business programs and vice versa during afternoon and evening broadcasting hours.

● Observed and circulated breaking news stories compiled internally to all Fox Business editorials if warranted.

● Checked and revised earnings estimates and domestic economic calendar data which were dispersed among several digital data platforms.

● Took in news feeds from news bureaus and various news organizations as well as met daily deadlines in a high-energy working environment.

● Coordinated with newsrooms during breaking news so all appropriate persons were aware after an initial story had been published, were ready to feed information and/or take a handoff.

NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS, CRANFORD, NJ MAR 2016 – AUG 2017 Facilitator

Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA is a cost-free, grassroots, volunteer, national/international respected and recognized job search support and networking organization.

● Served as the Chapter Leader of self-help non-profit organization committed to helping members through unemployment transition.

● Developed and implemented activities that support the annual action plan specifically as they related to improvement projects.

● Interfaced with other Warfare Facilitators to balance training objectives into a warfare focused training exercise.

● Established and enforced rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among assigned participants.

FOXBUSINESS.COM/FOX BUSINESS NETWORK, NEW YORK, NY MAR 2015 – APR 2016 Senior Home Page Editor/Reporter

Fox Business Network is an American cable and satellite business news television channel that is owned by 21st Century Fox.

● Served as senior liaison with Foxnews.com/Fox Business Network for content sharing and breaking business news and drove editorial direction and edited daily content, in tandem with feature columnists and contributors.

● Worked closely with the social media team pitching FOXBusiness.com stories for Facebook and Twitter; managed and edited FBN Contributors’ columns including: ‘Emac’s Bottom Line’ and ‘Charlie Breaks It’.

● Reported and produced digital stories on FOXBusiness.com website; monitored real-time site analytics and traffic while proficiently using Parsely, Chartbeat and Google analytics.

● Managed team of digital reporters, video producers and contributors in inter-exchange with the Managing Editor.

● Worked as Markets Editor, FOXBusiness.com as well as covered economic, corporate and market moving news for the section.

● Selected key business economic stories for the site coming from the candidates’ Presidential Election of 2016.

● Worked closely with team members to package a wide variety of news by selecting stories, writing engaging headlines, editing and occasionally writing articles, curating content, programming video and more.

● Ensured reporters understood best practices for aggregation, sourcing and attribution so that stories accurately represented the material’s origins. S&P CAPITAL IQ/ STANDARD & POOR’S, NEW YORK, NY MAY 2000 – MAY 2014 Financial Editor/Reporter

Matthew Morrow

Linkedin.com/in/matthewwmorrow

31 Roger Avenue, Cranford, NJ 07016

908-***-****, adxyy0@r.postjobfree.com

The S&P Capital IQ® platform combines global financial intelligence with an array of tools for analysis, ideation, and efficiency.

● Ensured the combination of Standard & Poor’s and the Capital IQ brand roll out across a new editorial platform produced by my team.

● Distributed corporate data and delivered valuable content regarding thousands of publicly traded companies to a website platform with over 150,000 subscribers.

● Managed & reduced operating expenses & controlled licensing fees & various budgets as well as headed effort to migrate extensive economic data via digital feed thus eliminating need of access of S&P economics information.

● Worked as host of weekly “Video Trends & Ideas,” a video appearing on Trends & Ideas channel, StandardandPoors.com and YouTube.com.

● Began writing career at S&P as Statistical Editor, then Senior Copy Editor. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, History

Rutgers University

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