Years of experience: 25
CopywritingCopywriterContent WriterEditorBlog Manager
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Exceptionally trusted; proven professional excellence.
John's Career Path
Aug. 2020 -Present
Self-employedMedia Consultant
-- Deliver a range of editorial and media planning and guidance to top companies, agencies, and talent nationally
-- Contributed to the early growth of one client's success in the emerging college sports NIL/NFT space; contributor to an agency's ESPN HBCU production; oversaw all editorial, concept development and talent negotiations for a media production company specializing in long-form ser...
Jan. 2019 -Jun. 2020
AccuWeatherDigital Content Director
State College, Pennsylvania Area-- Achieved significant monthly audience growth and increased digital advertising revenue working with all top company executives to create original, source-driven content on weather news, finance, and sports for multiple company platforms. -- Wrote numerous weather-related coronavirus stories; one topped 1 million page views, and five others in a two-week span topped 100,000 each in March 20...
Dec. 2017 -Jan. 2019
Centre Daily TimesExecutive Editor
State College, Pennsylvania Area-- Oversaw multiple award-winning stories, videos and photo operations as top editor of a 17-person staff and a multi-million-dollar budget. -- Created new partnerships with a local TV station and Penn State University that generated new audiences and increased advertising.