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Mara Model JOURNALIST • EDITOR • RESEARCHER EDUCATION TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Annenberg School of Communications, BA 2012 Magazine Journalism QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY English, 2008-2009 SKILLS EDIT AND RESEARCH AP & CHICAGO MANUAL STYLE FACT-CHECKING, INTERVIEWING TRANSCRIBING, IMAGE SOURCING DATABASES: LEXISNEXIS, JSTOR WEB/GRAPHIC DESIGN SEO CONCEPTS, HTML & CSS CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WORDPRESS, JOOMLA, DRUPAL PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, INCOPY DREAMWEAVER, ADOBE ACROBAT CONSTANT CONTACT OFFICE WORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK TWITTER HOOTSUITE LINKEDIN INSTAGRAM DIGITAL ANALYTICS GOOGLE ANALYTICS GOOGLE FOR NON-PROFITS ADWORDS FACEBOOK INSIGHTS MULTIMEDIA FINAL CUT PRO AUDACITY SOUNDSLIDE VIMEO EXPERIENCE HUDSONMOD, MODMEDIA, LLC MONTCLAIR, NJ • AUGUST 2014 - CURRENT SENIOR EDITOR • Oversee all editorial departments for HudsonMOD and Healthy Living • Responsibilities include story development, writing, editing, fact-checking, handling editorial calendars and flat plans, and making sure workflow between editors is organized • Assigned articles to freelance writers and managed deadlines • Conducted and transcribed in-person and phone interviews • Assisted graphic designers by inputting and copy editing text in InDesign files • Writer for various sections: entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, philanthropy and the cover HUDSONMOD, MODMEDIA, LLC MONTCLAIR, NJ • MAY - AUGUST 2014 ASSOCIATE EDITOR • Editor for HudsonMOD, a luxury NYC/NJ magazine and Healthy Living, a medical magazine • Responsible for pitching, writing FOB and BOB, editing features, sourcing images and working one-on-one with PR representatives • Assisted as web editor, posted on social media and created newsletters ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE (SA) CAPE TOWN, SA • SEPT - DEC 2013 DIGITAL EDITOR/CMS ADMINISTRATOR • Managed South Africa’s top music magazine’s website • Published, wrote and edited entertainment news daily by using content management systems • Attended Rolling Stone-sponsored events and wrote concert reviews • In charge of social media accounts using Hootsuite and applied various SEO strategies WEIGHT WATCHERS MAGAZINE NEW YORK, NY • MAY - AUGUST 2013 EDITORIAL INTERN • Fact-checker for national weight loss magazine • Assisted editors in the entire process of fact-checking and sourcing images • Utilized math skills to fact-check recipes for articles by calculating Weight Watchers points • Pitched articles on nutrition, food, fitness, and women’s health; wrote two bylines • Led product promotion meetings with PR firms PSYCHOLOGY TODAY MAGAZINE NEW YORK, NY • JAN - MAY 2013 EDITORIAL INTERN • Full-time intern at national psychology magazine • Found interesting studies using LexisNexis, JStor, ScienceDaily, PsychNET, Google Scholar • Wrote book reviews and FOB articles on the latest studies. • Helped the Associate Publisher as a researcher and photo shoot assistant for side projects TRAVEL EXPERIENCE • BOTSWANA, ZIMBABWE, ZAMBIA • CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA • TAGLIT MAYANOT BIRTHRIGHT, ISRAEL • MARCH OF THE LIVING - POLAND & ISRAEL • ROME, ITALY • GLASGOW, SCOTLAND • LONDON, ENGLAND CONTACT ME EMAIL: [email protected] CELL: 973-919-4502 TWITTER: @MARS_BAARS • WRITING SAMPLES & REFERENCES AVAILABLE AT WWW.MARAMODEL.COM
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Mara Model
journalist • editor • researcher
EDUCATIONTEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Annenberg School of Communications, BA 2012
Magazine Journalism
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYEnglish, 2008-2009
SKILLSEDIT AND RESEARCHAP & CHICAGO MANUAL STYLE
FACT-CHECKING, INTERVIEWING
TRANSCRIBING, IMAGE SOURCING
DATABASES: LEXISNEXIS, JSTOR
WEB/GRAPHIC DESIGNSEO CONCEPTS, HTML & CSS
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
WORDPRESS, JOOMLA, DRUPAL
PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, INCOPY
DREAMWEAVER, ADOBE ACROBAT
CONSTANT CONTACT
OFFICEWORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL
SOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOK
HOOTSUITE
DIGITAL ANALYTICSGOOGLE ANALYTICS
GOOGLE FOR NON-PROFITS
ADWORDS
FACEBOOK INSIGHTS
MULTIMEDIAFINAL CUT PRO
AUDACITY
SOUNDSLIDE
VIMEO
EXPERIENCEHUDSONMOD, MODMEDIA, LLC MONTCLAIR, NJ • AUGUST 2014 - CURRENTSENIOR EDITOR• Oversee all editorial departments for HudsonMOD and Healthy Living• Responsibilities include story development, writing, editing, fact-checking, handling editorial calendars and flat plans, and making sure workflow between editors is organized• Assigned articles to freelance writers and managed deadlines• Conducted and transcribed in-person and phone interviews• Assisted graphic designers by inputting and copy editing text in InDesign files• Writer for various sections: entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, philanthropy and the cover
HUDSONMOD, MODMEDIA, LLC MONTCLAIR, NJ • MAY - AUGUST 2014ASSOCIATE EDITOR• Editor for HudsonMOD, a luxury NYC/NJ magazine and Healthy Living, a medical magazine • Responsible for pitching, writing FOB and BOB, editing features, sourcing images and working one-on-one with PR representatives• Assisted as web editor, posted on social media and created newsletters
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE (SA) CAPE TOWN, SA • SEPT - DEC 2013DIGITAL EDITOR/CMS ADMINISTRATOR• Managed South Africa’s top music magazine’s website• Published, wrote and edited entertainment news daily by using content management systems• Attended Rolling Stone-sponsored events and wrote concert reviews• In charge of social media accounts using Hootsuite and applied various SEO strategies WEIGHT WATCHERS MAGAZINE NEW YORK, NY • MAY - AUGUST 2013EDITORIAL INTERN• Fact-checker for national weight loss magazine• Assisted editors in the entire process of fact-checking and sourcing images• Utilized math skills to fact-check recipes for articles by calculating Weight Watchers points• Pitched articles on nutrition, food, fitness, and women’s health; wrote two bylines• Led product promotion meetings with PR firms
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY MAGAZINE NEW YORK, NY • JAN - MAY 2013EDITORIAL INTERN• Full-time intern at national psychology magazine• Found interesting studies using LexisNexis, JStor, ScienceDaily, PsychNET, Google Scholar• Wrote book reviews and FOB articles on the latest studies.• Helped the Associate Publisher as a researcher and photo shoot assistant for side projects
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
• BOTSWANA, ZIMBABWE, ZAMBIA• CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
• TAGLIT MAYANOT BIRTHRIGHT, ISRAEL• MARCH OF THE LIVING - POLAND & ISRAEL
• ROME, ITALY• GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
• LONDON, ENGLAND
CONTACT ME
EMAIL: [email protected]: 973-919-4502
TWITTER: @MARS_BAARS•
WRITING SAMPLES & REFERENCES AVAILABLE AT
WWW.MARAMODEL.COM
