Yehudit Garmaise

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adzjxu@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

BoroPark24.com August 2020-Present

Staff Writer/Content Creator

-Write several stories a day on topics for a hyperlocal news website in Brooklyn, NY

-Attend NY state, NYC, local Brooklyn press conferences in Brooklyn, community board meetings to ask questions of elected officials and report hyper-local news.

-Interview elected officials and community members, and research issues to write news relevant to the community.

-Write two weekly features that provide tips and tricks for daily living both at home and out in the world.

-Deliver balanced news stories that clearly articulate different viewpoints, while providing fascinating, brisk, exciting, pared-down, and error-free copy.

-Take photos in New York City to be used with my stories and others’ work.

Mishpacha Magazine, Family First, Ami Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, Jewish Action Magazine, The Jewish Press, the Jewish Journal

Freelance Journalist July 1999 to present

-Pitch and write many original story ideas. exciting news and unique features.

-Attend events and interview many people to create fascinating, well-written, super-readable stories on a wide range of topics.

Touro College, Los Angeles Sept. 2014 to June 2018

Composition Professor

-Taught grammar, style, and argumentation

The D.O. Magazine (Doctor of Osteopathy) July 1996 to July 1999

Staff writer

-Attended nationwide medical conferences to report on breaking and relevant healthcare news.

-Wrote profiles of prominent physicians.

-Pitched and wrote fascinating features on topics of interest to physicians.

-Took photos to be used with my stories.

The Star Newspaper, Tinley Park, IL July 1995 to July 1996

Zone Editor

-Reported hyperlocal news by attending local events, meetings, and by phone and in-person interviews.

-Edited others’ work and wrote exciting and attention-grabbing headlines.

-Laid out pages in Quark Express.

Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University July 1994 to July 1995

Staff Writer: Kellogg World, the business school’s alumni magazine

-Attended business school events, particularly those aimed at women

-Wrote articles for a magazine read by alumni

EDUCATION

St. John’s College, M.A. The Great Books Program, 1994

University of Iowa, B.A. Literature, Science, and the Arts, 1993

VOLUNTEER WORK:

-Teach weekly Torah classes and write them up for the Jewish Journal

-Chai Lifeline: tutor, mentor, and befriend the sibling of a very sick child

-Tutor/Mentor Program: tutored and mentored a girl in 6th grade

-“Picture This:” Taught creative writing to teens at a photography/writing class at a Boys and Girls Club in Chicago

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