The New York Times Detroit
Automotive Reporter
2013 - Present
The Detroit News Detroit
Automotive and Business Reporter 2008-2012
• Covered General Motors’ bankruptcy, bailout and recovery as part of a three-person automotive reporting team;
invited to discuss coverage as expert analyst on television and radio shows across the U.S.
• Wrote breaking news and analysis on Fortune 10 Ford Motor Co. and automotive suppliers
• Reported on breaking news and feature stories for Michigan-based Fortune 500 and major private firms, including
Borders' bankruptcy, Dow Chemical's billion-dollar acquisitions and Domino’s turnaround strategy
• Cited by national media including Bloomberg News, Rush Limbaugh and Drudge Report after breaking national
story on landscapers declining job offers to receive unemployment benefits
Honors & Awards:
• Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business Contest
Category: Breaking news, Dailies 100,000 to 2000,000: “Final Chapter for Borders” 2012
• Elite 40 Under 40 recipient, awarded by Oakland County, Mich., Chief Executive Brooks Patterson, 2012
• Small Business Association of Michigan's Communicator of the Year, 2011
• Reynolds Center for Business Journalism’s Strictly Financials Fellowship, 2011
Inc. Magazine New York, NY
Reporter and Inc. 5000 project intern 2007
• Recruited, evaluated, interviewed, and profiled hundreds of businesses as part of a nine-person team responsible
for expanding the annual Inc. 500 list to 5,000 companies; wrote feature on disabled entrepreneurs for Inc.com
The Beacon Hill Times/ The Back Bay Sun Boston
Staff Reporter/ Assistant Editor 2006-2007
• Wrote 2-4 stories daily on local news, business and investigative reporting on local sex offenders and identity theft
The Wilton Bulletin/ The Darien Times Wilton/ Darien, CT
Business/ Staff Reporter 2005-2006
• Covered local news and business. Wrote series on the town’s ethics council that led to the chair’s resignation
• Won Society of Professional Journalists’ Excellence in Journalism Contest for Community General Reporting
Trop Media Inc. Boston
Founder and Editor-in-Chief 2002-2005
• Created, founded and published a 16-page quarterly satire newspaper called The Pedestrian
• Recruited, trained, and supervised a staff of 35 student writers, photographers, designers and advertising reps
FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
• Book reviewer, American Airlines’ in-flight magazine and Jewish Book World. 2008 – Present
• Write travel features for American Airlines, The Independent (UK) and Time Out New York. 2006- Present
• Cover Story, "It takes an identity thief," a five-year investigation, Boston Phoenix. 2006-2010
• Reported on murders, trials and the Gov. Eliot Spitzer scandal for the New York Post. 2008
• Reported on international news for The Independent on Sunday (UK). 2005
• Interviewed and wrote features on musicians and reviewed movies for Rolling Stone (Australia). 2004-2005
EDUCATION
Columbia Business School, New York
Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism, 2012-13
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York
Master of Science in Journalism, May 2008, Concentration in New Media
Boston University College of Communication, Boston
Bachelor of Science in Journalism, May 2005