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Amy Vernon  |
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Freelance Writer And Social Media Marketing Consul at Self
Internet
Elizabeth, NJ United States
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Status: Amy is working on her profile.
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• Freelance Writer And Social Media Marketing Consultant at Self (2008 - current)
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• Metro Editor/Rockland at The Journal News / LoHud.com (2000-2008)
• Deputy Metro Editor at East Valley Tribune (1997-2000)
• Reporter at The Miami Herald (1991-1997)
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http://amyvernon.net
http://tvtyrant.com
http://twitter.com/amyvernon
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Specialties |
| electronic media; blogging; blogworking (social networking among blogs); teaching myself html, php and other web languages; oh, yeah, and writing and editing |
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Summary |
| While I "grew up" in the age of traditional, "old" media, I have become fluent in new media. I greatly enjoy blogging and blog design. I have been learning how to promote blogs and other electronic media through networking in the blogosphere and believe newspapers will always exist, even if it's in a different form than today. Gathering and disseminating the news becomes more important by the day.
I am among the top 50 submitters of all time on Digg.com (and the highest-ranked female ever), a "Super-Mixxer" on Mixx, and have growing followings on Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Propeller. |
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Freelance Writer And Social Media Marketing Consultant at Self
December 2008 –
current
Write for a variety of sites, including tech site HotHardware.com and slice-of-life/humor site, Burbia.com.
Social media marketing consultant for a variety of companies, helping them determine how best to get the buzz out.
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Metro Editor/Rockland at The Journal News / LoHud.com
February 2000 –
December 2008
[ 8 Year(s)
10 Month(s) ]
Started as education editor in Westchester, after a little more than a year, promoted to metro editor of the Rockland edition, which accounted for a third of the paper's circulation and a significant percentage of the daily page views.
I also co-ran the TV blog, Remote Access (www.remote.lohudblogs.com), administered the Inside Rockland local news blog (www.insiderockland.lohudblogs.com) and The Hall Monitor education blog (www.hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com) and contributed to the parenting blog, "ice cream is not for breakfast" (www.kidnutrition.lohudblogs.com).
Developed skills in SEO and social media. Became one of the top 100 Diggers of all time, with a strong StumbleUpon profile and growing Reddit, Mixx and Propeller profiles.
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Deputy Metro Editor at East Valley Tribune
July 1997 –
February 2000
[ 3 Year(s)
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Started as a reporter, moved up to Assistant Metro Editor, was Acting Metro Editor for a few months and then was promoted to Deputy Metro Editor.
As a reporter, I was part of a team that won a Thomson newspapers award for in-depth reporting on the water situation in Arizona. As an editor, I managed reporters who covered education, religion and health, as well as producing special sections and managing large data releases from the state Education Department.
As Deputy Metro Editor, I also was in charge of the Sunday paper - enterprise planning, story assignments and line editing.
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Reporter at The Miami Herald
September 1991 –
June 1997
[ 6 Year(s)
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Covered cops, obits and municipal government during nearly six years here. During that time, I was a member of the staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew. Evacuated with co-workers and my bosses for the duration of the storm, I was among a group who worked almost nonstop for two days to help put out an extra edition before the storm hit and two editions in the immediate aftermath.
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| Interests: |
| writing, social media, science fiction |
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Member of The Miami Herald's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning staff for coverage of Hurricane Andrew.
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Amy’s Contacts (
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Leslie Clark
VP Of Marketing at Bg Theory
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