Objective

To bring her decade-plus of experience as a business and financial reporter to a respected media organization in need of a responsible and reasonable freelance reporter/editor.

Under The Writers' Group umbrella Jennifer has been contracted to regularly report or edit for such publications as:

   • Revenue, a San Francisco-based international business magazine for affiliate marketers with 125,000 circulation (she also served as managing editor in residence for its second issue and continues to write its quarterly cover features)

    • The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper and the largest daily in the Northwest (she serves as "The Bottom Line" business/personal finance columnist for three of its regionalized tabloids and previously served as a stringer for its Tigard bureau)

   • The Seattle Times, Seattle's Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper and the largest daily in Washington (she also served a five-week on-site contract as a staff general assignment reporter)

   • Building Owner Security Report, a high-end subscription newsletter for Real Estate Investment Trust and pension fund managers published by New York-based Real Estate Media Network (she served as co-editor for this publication and its successor, Property Protection Report.)

   • Office.com, CBS Broadcasting’s small business Web site and at the time the largest small business news site on the Internet with 1.2 million different visitors monthly (She also edited one to four of its other writers each month.)

   • The Columbian, a 60,000-subscriber daily in Vancouver, Wash. (For two years she also served as contract “contributing editor” for its “Inspirations for Your Home & Garden” Thursday design  supplement, assigning and editing up to 18 writers for this weekly publication.)

   • Lifestyles Northwest, a regional magazine for ages 50+ (As contributing editor, she wrote 36 cover features on Portland-area movers and shakers, including full-length profiles of Columbia Sportswear’s Gert Boyle, PGA pro Peter Jacobsen and “This Old House” host Steve Thomas.)

She also has contributed articles to many publications on a freelance basis, including:  

      •  BuySide, a leading stock and fund analysis trade magazine

      •  Profit  magazine, the client publication for Oracle, the software company that powers the Internet

      •  Frontier Magazine, Frontier Airline’s in-flight magazine

      •  Meridian Magazine, in-flight magazine for the now-defunct Midway Airlines

      •  Lebanon Daily News, a tri-county daily newspaper based in Lebanon, Penn.                  •  Portrait of Puget Sound

      •  DECOR magazine (contributing editor and columnist)     •  NW Builder Magazine        •  Vancouver Business Journal       

      •  Seattle Homes and Lifestyles      •  Portrait of Portland      * Pacific Northwest  magazine (a publication of The Seattle Times)

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DreambuildersTV, May 1998 to January 2002

As anchor, legislative reporter and co-producer for this business magazine-style television show (broadcast to one million-plus homes in Oregon and Southwest Washington), Jennifer was responsible for:

   • Researching and writing two on-air news segments per show, interviewing all legislative guests (live to tape) and providing background video and on-screen graphics.

   • This show, subtitled “A focus on entrepreneurial achievement,” aired on FOX’s Portland, Ore., affiliate, and rebroadcast on AT&T Cable for 36 episodes starting March 17, 2001.

Vancouver Business Journal, September 1998 to September 1999

As its managing editor (hired back after a one-year departure), Jennifer supervised three reporters, copy editors, interns and up to 18 freelancers (for special projects). She also helped create all editorial content and photographs for the 30,000-reader Vancouver Business Journal, its 12 supplements and its interactive Web site, while continuing to write features and news about small business, real estate, finance and business trends.

The Columbian, January 1998 to September 1998

As business reporter Jennifer was part of a three-person business news team for Southwest Washington’s largest daily newspaper (named “Best in Business” in 2000 by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers). Beats included but were not limited to: breaking news, business trends, business development and Internet strategies.

Vancouver Business Journal, October 1995 to January 1998

As business reporter my beats included but were not limited to: small business, entrepreneur profiles and Q&As, and business trends. I was soon promoted to editor, then managing editor. I then transitioned the journal from monthly to every two weeks and added an Interactive Web site and six new publications — including the annual research and copy-editing of the extensive “Book of Lists.”

WSET-TV, 1994 to 1995

As news production assistant for WSET-TV Virginia's 13, the ABC affiliate in Lynchburg, Va., Jennifer rotated between five positions for both nightly newscasts: camera operator, lighting, producer, sound engineer and CG operator. She also performed voiceovers for evening news sponsors, anchored recordings of local news cut-ins for CNN, and substituted as production assistant for special news programs and "Good Morning Virginia."

Education

Jennifer received her bachelor’s of science degree in telecommunications-broadcast journalism, with an emphasis on broadcast management, from Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, in May 1995. She also took degree-oriented coursework at:

·         Seattle Pacific University (finalist for “Student of the Year”),

·         Bellevue Community College (where she served as traffic reporter for the on-campus jazz station),

·         Harrisburg Area Community College (Dean's List) and

·        Lynchburg College (where she reported for the college television news program which aired on Cable Channel 6).

Her education didn’t stop there. She continues to build on her degree with continuing education from the:

·         National Press Foundation’s Business Reporting Seminar, held June 23 in Seattle in collaboration with The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (selected as one of only 25 journalists to attend);

·         American Press Institute’s Intermediate Business Reporting training, led online by Bloomberg contributor and Carolina Business News Initiative Director Chris Roush from Dec. 5-9, 2005;

·        University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication (for completion of the 2005 NW Journalism Conference, with courses in embedded reporting, convergence, profile writing, investigative reporting, using studies and polls, self-editing and enterprise reporting);

·         2004 NW Journalism Conference, where she attended courses in syndication, column writing, narrative journalism, advanced interviewing techniques;

·         2002 NW Journalism Conference, where she attended courses in writing snappy leads, trend identification, writing Pulitzer Prize-winning copy, self-editing, advanced business reporting;

·         Poynter Institute’s three-day journalism seminar held in Portland, Ore., March 1998;

·         Washington State University, for certification in editing in 1997.

Affiliations

   •  National Writers Union, Member, October 2004 to October 2005

   •  Self-Employed Creative Professionals, programming committee chair and member from August 2004 to October 2005

   • Center for Journalism Excellence, President, March 2003 to present 

   • NW Journalism Conference, Director and Founding Board Member, January 2002 to present 

   • Clark County Communicators, Member (division of Intl. Business Communicators), July 2001 to October 2004

Additional Information

    • Co-author of “IRA Wealth: Revolutionary IRA Strategies for Real Estate Investment” (Square One Publishers, New York), a book that has crossed the top 100 in Amazon.com personal finance book sales, has been featured three times in the Wall Street Journal, was named a “good buy” by the Library Journal and has been featured in dozens of other publications including AARP The Magazine, Time magazine and CBSMarketWatch.com.

   • The U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2002 “Journalist of the Year” for Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Idaho

   • Named one of the Vancouver Business Journal's “40 under 40” in 2003

   • Vocal talent for commercials at Vancouver's KVAN, Bellevue's KBCC and Pennsylvania’s WCTX radio stations and ABC's Lynchburg, Va., television affiliate

   • Moderator for a live television show aired Jan. 28, 2001, on the City of Vancouver’s government channel. The event, entitled “Champions in the Global Arena,” aimed to develop global leadership and groom executives for international trade and marketing.

   • Instructor of entrepreneurial or journalism courses conducted at Portland State University, Portland Community College and the Northwest Journalism Conference

   • Scored in the top 15 percentile for the national law school entrance exam (LSAT)

References Available Upon Request

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