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PROFILE
Accomplished journalist with nearly two decades of experience in newspapers, magazines, and digital media, with proven success developing award-winning content and effective editorial strategies for print and online brands. Innovative storyteller and features editor, skilled at translating complex concepts for a general audience. Connected with an expansive stable of leading journalists and authors.
EXPERIENCE
OnEarth magazine, New York, N.Y. 2009-present
OnEarth.org Editor
• Developed and executed strategy for transforming quarterly print magazine into daily news site through full redesign and major expansion of online content.
• Commission top journalists to produce high-impact enterprise stories and online columns and blogs that provide fresh perspectives and compelling commentary.
• Collaborate with magazine staff on shared editorial vision and publishing plan, commissioning videos, slideshows, and infographics to supplement print stories.
• Manage all aspects of online publishing and production, including budget, online style guide, photo acquisition, and contributor contracts. Supervise extensive roster of freelance columnists, bloggers, editors, fact checkers, and producers.
• Launched email newsletter, oversee social media strategy, and work to develop new distribution methods through content-sharing partnerships, syndication, apps, and e-readers. Doubled monthly unique visitors in year after relaunch.
• Led OnEarth.org to first Eddie Award win in 2011 for best nonprofit news site, and first Online Journalism Award nomination for general excellence.
• Report and write stories, essays, and book reviews for OnEarth’s print edition.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 2009-present
Adjunct Professor
• Teach reporting/writing, advise students, manage online student publications.
Freelance Journalist, New York, N.Y. 2006-present
• Contribute to the New York Times, Scientific American, Oceanus, and others.
• Clients include Columbia University and the Foundational Questions Institute.
Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, N.Y. 2008-2009
Online Editorial Manager
• Produced and edited content for network of NRDC websites, which reach more than half a million visitors monthly. Managed staff blog and social media efforts.
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, N.J. 2007-2008
Director of Print and Web Media
• Revamped website, produced online content, created membership magazine.
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C. 1998-2006
Metro Reporter/Editor
• Lead writer/reporter on national news stories including Olympic Park bomber, 2001 anthrax attacks, US Airways plane crash, and fatal fright train derailment.
• Weekend metro editor, planning front-page coverage and supervising reporters.
• Investigative stories revealed wasteful homeland security spending, abuses at public animal shelters, and campaign finance violations by N.C. House Speaker.
• Reported on Hurricane Katrina for the Gulf Coast’s Sun Herald, contributing to coverage that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service.
• Named city’s best reporter by local alt-weekly, which said: “When The Charlotte Observer wants to make a good story a great one, it sends out Scott Dodd.”
York Daily Record, York, Pa. 1994-1998
Reporter/Assistant Editor
• Covered cops, county, city hall, and statehouse beats. Ran night metro desk.
• Award-winning stories helped free a wrongly convicted man on death row.
EDUCATION
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y.
• M.A. in science journalism, May 2007
• Bollinger Presidential Fellowship
• Thesis Award finalist
Penn State University, State College, Pa.
• B.A. in journalism, minor in history, May 1994
• Graduated with honors
• Managing editor at Daily Collegian student newspaper
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Office, Photoshop, InDesign, HTML basics, Wordpress, Movable Type, Drupal, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Mac or PC
MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Magazine Editors, National Association of Science Writers, Society of Environmental Journalists, Science Writers in New York
SELECT AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Folio Eddie Awards 2011
Association/Non-Profit Website: Gold
International Marine Conservation Congress 2011
Traveling Media Fellowship
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2007
Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship
The Pulitzer Prize 2006
Public Service: Awarded to staff of the Sun Herald for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best of Business Awards 2005
Breaking News Coverage: First Place
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism 2005
Homeland Security Fellowship
North Carolina Press Association Awards 2005
General Reporting: First Place
Sports Reporting: First Place
Humane Society of the United States Genesis Awards 2004
Newspaper Series: “Death at the Pound”
Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Awards 2003 & 2004
Deadline Reporting: First Place (both years)
Keystone Press Award 1996
Investigative Reporting: First Place
PROFILE
Accomplished journalist with nearly two decades of experience in newspapers, magazines, and digital media, with proven success developing award-winning content and effective editorial strategies for print and online brands. Innovative storyteller and features editor, skilled at translating complex concepts for a general audience. Connected with an expansive stable of leading journalists and authors.
EXPERIENCE
OnEarth magazine, New York, N.Y. 2009-present
OnEarth.org Editor
• Developed and executed strategy for transforming quarterly print magazine into daily news site through full redesign and major expansion of online content.
• Commission top journalists to produce high-impact enterprise stories and online columns and blogs that provide fresh perspectives and compelling commentary.
• Collaborate with magazine staff on shared editorial vision and publishing plan, commissioning videos, slideshows, and infographics to supplement print stories.
• Manage all aspects of online publishing and production, including budget, online style guide, photo acquisition, and contributor contracts. Supervise extensive roster of freelance columnists, bloggers, editors, fact checkers, and producers.
• Launched email newsletter, oversee social media strategy, and work to develop new distribution methods through content-sharing partnerships, syndication, apps, and e-readers. Doubled monthly unique visitors in year after relaunch.
• Led OnEarth.org to first Eddie Award win in 2011 for best nonprofit news site, and first Online Journalism Award nomination for general excellence.
• Report and write stories, essays, and book reviews for OnEarth’s print edition.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 2009-present
Adjunct Professor
• Teach reporting/writing, advise students, manage online student publications.
Freelance Journalist, New York, N.Y. 2006-present
• Contribute to the New York Times, Scientific American, Oceanus, and others.
• Clients include Columbia University and the Foundational Questions Institute.
Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, N.Y. 2008-2009
Online Editorial Manager
• Produced and edited content for network of NRDC websites, which reach more than half a million visitors monthly. Managed staff blog and social media efforts.
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, N.J. 2007-2008
Director of Print and Web Media
• Revamped website, produced online content, created membership magazine.
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C. 1998-2006
Metro Reporter/Editor
• Lead writer/reporter on national news stories including Olympic Park bomber, 2001 anthrax attacks, US Airways plane crash, and fatal fright train derailment.
• Weekend metro editor, planning front-page coverage and supervising reporters.
• Investigative stories revealed wasteful homeland security spending, abuses at public animal shelters, and campaign finance violations by N.C. House Speaker.
• Reported on Hurricane Katrina for the Gulf Coast’s Sun Herald, contributing to coverage that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service.
• Named city’s best reporter by local alt-weekly, which said: “When The Charlotte Observer wants to make a good story a great one, it sends out Scott Dodd.”
York Daily Record, York, Pa. 1994-1998
Reporter/Assistant Editor
• Covered cops, county, city hall, and statehouse beats. Ran night metro desk.
• Award-winning stories helped free a wrongly convicted man on death row.
EDUCATION
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y.
• M.A. in science journalism, May 2007
• Bollinger Presidential Fellowship
• Thesis Award finalist
Penn State University, State College, Pa.
• B.A. in journalism, minor in history, May 1994
• Graduated with honors
• Managing editor at Daily Collegian student newspaper
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Office, Photoshop, InDesign, HTML basics, Wordpress, Movable Type, Drupal, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Mac or PC
MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Magazine Editors, National Association of Science Writers, Society of Environmental Journalists, Science Writers in New York
SELECT AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Folio Eddie Awards 2011
Association/Non-Profit Website: Gold
International Marine Conservation Congress 2011
Traveling Media Fellowship
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2007
Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship
The Pulitzer Prize 2006
Public Service: Awarded to staff of the Sun Herald for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best of Business Awards 2005
Breaking News Coverage: First Place
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism 2005
Homeland Security Fellowship
North Carolina Press Association Awards 2005
General Reporting: First Place
Sports Reporting: First Place
Humane Society of the United States Genesis Awards 2004
Newspaper Series: “Death at the Pound”
Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Awards 2003 & 2004
Deadline Reporting: First Place (both years)
Keystone Press Award 1996
Investigative Reporting: First Place
